Re: [gtk-list] wait crashes X (or worse)

["Brian J. Murrell" <gtk-list-in interlinx bc ca>]

from the quill of Jeff Trefftzs <trefftzs@mindy.tcsn.net> on scroll
<199903200421.UAA00658@selket>
> 
> 	(b)  locking up my system with an immovable X-cursor over
> 	     the icon, locked keyboard, forcing a power-cycle
> 	     reboot :-(
> 

I have noticed that the last build I did a week or two ago was doing
this when I tried to exit "Gnome".  The machine would lock up.  I am
totally befuddled how a process (or series of processes) started by an
unprivelleged (albeit some of them are suid root) can lock the kernel up
like that.  I mean this is *not* Windows afterall.

Thots?

b.



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