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| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
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| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
347.0. "dual session no go?" by MU::PORTER (what's in a name?) Tue Mar 07 1989 23:50
What exactly is a session? I was screwing around the other day,
and ran a remote session manager at the same time as a local
session manager was active. Why? Well, why not? It seemed like
a good idea at the time...
Anyway, when I got bored with that, I selected "quit" on the remote
session manager. This rather unexpectedly zapped all my applications,
whether locally-initiated or remotely-initiated. I sort of feel
it should somehow know the difference, although I'm not sure I
really see how it *could*.
This got me thinking that I don't really know what defines
a session.
I don't expect anything to get fixed, I'm just interested.
Another "interesting" phenomenon was that I didn't get back to the
login screen on my workstation. The screen kept flashing between
root and son-of-root [Normally at session shutdown, the session
manager's background window is stripped away, revealing what I
think must be son-of-root. Colour seems random. Then that gets
destroyed, revealing the grey woven root.] This kept going
indefinitely until I hit Halt.
dave
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 347.1 | Server reset | ASIA::MCLEMAN | Workstations 'R' Us | Wed Mar 08 1989 07:15 | 3 |
| When you "zap" a session (whether remote or local), it signals the server to
reset, which disconnects all connects. (Local and remote).
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| 347.2 | Son of root? | DECWIN::FISHER | Burns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO3-4/W23 | Fri Mar 10 1989 21:33 | 11 |
| The flashing you see (son of root) is an artifact of the server
resetting on dragon-based workstations. The driver clears the screen
(to 0?) and depending on what randomly happens to be in the colormap
for that value, the screen turns that color. The repeated flashing
would indicate that one or the other of your session managers (loginout
actually) was trying to reconnect and failing. Probably a result of
security.
Burns
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