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We are having a problem with X applications running on a Unix workstation
that are talking to an X server on a Mac.  If the Mac is shut off without
gracefully shutting down the X server, all of the processes on the Unix
workstation hang indefinitely.

I've seen similar problems reported about X applications staying around when
an X terminal is shut off, but I didn't pay much attention to the thread at
that time (we use xdm with out X terminals, and xdm cleans up the X
applications when it restarts, so they are relatively self-correcting in this
area.)  Does anybody have an elegant solution that we could try (our ideas
seem pretty brutal at this point), or will future Xlib applications include
some sort of server heartbeat and know when a server has gone away?

Thanks,
John Kochmar

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| John Kochmar 					                            |
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