Yes, I can read the setsid manpage, too, but it doesn't provide much edification as to precisely why mktexpk fails with that message when run from xdvi, but when run from the command line with the same arguments seems to work perfectly. In fact, I'm not actually convinced that mktexpk is being called at all.
I have put a copy of the decoded ktrace on the web at http://www.rattus.net/~packrat/software/files/xdvi.trace.gz (360kb) with the trace all decendants flags on so that the location of the setsid stuff is visible. The relevant parts are of the following form: 11520 xdvi.xdvi GIO fd 1 wrote 79 bytes "- mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 'magstep(0)' --dpi 600 cmmi\ 10 '>&3' " 11520 xdvi.xdvi RET write 79/0x4f 11520 xdvi.xdvi CALL vfork 11521 xdvi.xdvi RET vfork 11521/0x2d01 11521 xdvi.xdvi CALL close(0x6) 11521 xdvi.xdvi RET close 0 11521 xdvi.xdvi CALL dup2(0x7,0x3) 11521 xdvi.xdvi RET dup2 3 11521 xdvi.xdvi CALL close(0x7) 11521 xdvi.xdvi RET close 0 11521 xdvi.xdvi CALL setsid 11521 xdvi.xdvi RET setsid -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted 11521 xdvi.xdvi CALL writev(0x2,0xbffff350,0x4) 11521 xdvi.xdvi GIO fd 2 wrote 32 bytes "setsid: Operation not permitted " 11521 xdvi.xdvi RET writev 32/0x20 11521 xdvi.xdvi CALL exit(0x1) 11520 xdvi.xdvi RET vfork 11521/0x2d01 11520 xdvi.xdvi PSIG SIGCHLD caught handler=0xa2e4 mask=0x0 code=0x0 What precisely was the function of the setsid call in xdvi and why is xdvi being killed by a return code which is (from the point of view of setsid) hardly fatal? B> -- Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat Implementor) Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
