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In article <1992Apr13.232753.25043@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>  
schildba@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wolfgang Schildbach) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> every once in a while it happens to me that upon executing my code
> the NeXT just kills *ALL* my processes, logs me out and leaves me
> with the login screen. My understanding of UNIX is that no matter
> how nasty a program, it should never infringe on other processes.
> 
> What could cause these nasty crashes?
> 
> Ciao W.

My guess is that your crashing the window server.  I think there are still  
nasty bugs in the window server code that can make it crash.  And, when it  
crashes it takes everything else with it.  Supposedly, there was some garbage  
collection problem in 2.0 that is fixed in 2.1, although I still see this kind  
of crash.  Also, one of our marketing people has seen FrameMaker and TopDraw  
make this violent crash happen.  It's impossible to predict or duplicate which  
makes it hard to submit a bug report of any consequence.

Sorry I couldn't be more help, but noone I've talked to seems to know anything  
about why the window server crashes randomly like that.  It would be really  
cool if someone at NeXT could comment on this since I've seen this happen in  
several Apps.  

Another awful thing about this kind of bug is that if your App is the one  
causing the crash, it's impossible to find out what you are sending to the  
window server that could be causing such a bug so that you could, at least,  
work around it.

If you do get any resolution on this, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

Chris Chauvin
chauvin@pencom.com
Pencom Software
(512) 343-1111