[unclassified] Re: [x11] Application persistency even when DISPLAY connection is lost

[Glynn Clements]

John Klingler wrote:

> > > Unfortunately, Xlib exits when a display connection is broken.
> > > In order to restore an application that has exited when the
> > > connection can be re-established, it is necessary to have a
> > > parent process without a display connection to detect when the
> > > application has exited and restart it. I call this a "heartbeat
> > > monitor" and have implemented these on commercial applications.
> > 
> > actuallt that's incorrect. that is only the DEFAULT behavior. you can set an
> > xlib io handler that will stop this from happening and then re-establish the
> > connection. no need for a parent process, shared memory etc.
> 
> Really? I was never able to get my io handler to do that. Just how do 
> you go about it? ;-)

You have to longjmp() out of the I/O error handler; if it returns,
Xlib will call exit().

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>