Strange exit behaviour of GUI programs in Xfce on Logout

[Bernhard Walle]

* Bernhard Walle [02.10.2005 20:37]:
> * Bernhard Walle [02.10.2005 19:52]:
>> * Olivier Fourdan [02.10.2005 09:53]:
>>> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 00:20 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
>>>> following problem: I wrote an application which should save some
>>>> information on exit. The application doesn't use session management
>>>> (it's very simple, doesn't even have a real GUI, the connection to the
>>>> X-Server is only to get closed on logout).
>>> If you run the session manager, the "--daemon" option in xfwm4 is simply
>>> ignored (because it's the SM that manages the startup)
>>>
>>> So in your later example, the one that doesn't work, I believe your test
>>> program is simply not executed.
>> In this examples there's no session manager. I simply do
>>
>>  - Starting a failsave session
>>  - xfwm4 --daemon
>>  - ./testclient&
>>  - exit
> 
> Ok, this was wrong. It works.
> 
> But following persists:
> 
>  - Normal Xfce login
>  - start ./testclient&
>  - log out
> 
> /tmp/test.txt is not created, so the function registered with atexit()
> is not run. Can anybody verify this?

I tracked down the issue. The process receives SIGPIPE from the X11 socket.

I think this is a timing issue (if the process gehts a X11 error or a
SIGPIPE) and not directly related to Xfce.


Regards,
   Bernhard