On 31/01/2014 08:58, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: > In cygwin X window, type: > > cd / > ls */*/*
Heh. What an interesting bug. However, it doesn't seem to be an X server bug. Typing the same commands into a mintty causes that to exit as well. > xinit: connection to X server lost > > waiting for X server to shut down winClipboardProc - > winClipboardFlushWindowsMessageQueue trapped WM_QUIT message, exiting main > loop. > winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded. > winClipboardIOErrorHandler! > winMultiWindowXMsgProcIOErrorHandler! > winInitMultiWindowXMsgProc - Caught IO Error. Exiting. > winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress > (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. On 31/01/2014 13:13, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> for what I can see the xterm crash, not the Xserver What is happening here is that the X server has been started with xinit or startx, and the command is typed into the initial xterm. When that exits, the X server is shut down to. >> and I will bet when you are looking on /proc/*/* Wrong guess :) 'ls proc/*/*' doesn't seem to reproduce it, but 'ls dev/*/*' does. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple