On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 11:07:47AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stephen> I was hacking around on xfstt earlier today. > > Neat. I packed up the ttf files from the Windows[1] that came with > my Laptop, and am going to try them with `xfstt' after I get Debian > 2.0 installed on it. :-)
as some pointed out xfstt might be abit of a memory hog (maybe a leak) but.. it does work nice with Windows fonts and makes Nutscrape look nice. > Stephen> This SEEMS to work fine (I havn't really given it a good > Stephen> test -YET) except when I connect and then > Stephen> disconnect...the child exists (via _exit(0)) after the > Stephen> client disconnects. The problem is that the child then > Stephen> become a zombie. > > Stephen> I installed a signal handler for SIGCHLD which does > Stephen> nothing what should I do? how can I make th eparent clean > Stephen> up its little zombie children? > > You can tell it to `IGN' SIGCHLD, and get automatic reaping, if I > remember right. Yes I found that in a book..it worked...as I said in anothe rmessagem, I was confused by the terminology of some docs using "ignore" to mean 2 differnt things (1 being no action is taken like dumping core or stopping execution of you rprogram, 2 being actually telling the system "ignore this") > Read `man wait', `man sigaction', and any xrefs you find there. The > `info libc' is very good. You can use `M-x info-look' in emacs, with > the cursor on a symbol, and it will go and find the documentation on > the symbol in the info. I will have to check it out, thanx for the tip :) > Buy, beg, borrow, or steal a copy of W. Richard Stevens' "Advanced > Programming in the Unix Environment". It covers signal handling, and > lots more. hmmm I supose I can buy a copy...I had seen that book on a shelf at Microcenter and considered it...now that I have heard this good review I guess I will buy it (I will try begging them for it, but I doubt they will give it to me just for my looks and sob story...and stealing it...well Im just not into that) > Footnotes: > [1] I also snagged the `monitor*.inf' files; so I can get the scan > rate for my lcd panel laptop display. I wonder if it's legal to > run a perl processor on that and convert it to an XFree86 > compatible monitor database, then distribute it? Sounds interesting...if you can figure it out go for it :) The problem is I have one of those for my monitor and...it is sorta hard to figure out I thought... but I supose they do have the info (BTW it might be better to just distribute the prog for doing it...that way people can do it with new monitors they get) -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth" -- Thomas Edison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]