> This turned out to be almost trivial...simply a few mods, instead of servicing > requests after connect, it fork()s and lets the child service that connection > while the parent loops and waits fo rthe next connect. [I think I changed > 10 lines of code total]
Yeah, but this means each seperate xfstt instance does not share it's bitmap/metric caches, root 509 0.0 35.4 99640 22428 ? S May 15 0:44 /usr/bin/X11/xfstt I'd hate to have more than one of those monsters around! Incedently, I think xfstt has a memory leak. 99M of ram is a bit high. To fix your zombie problem you should IGNORE sigchld or arrange for wait to be called (but not in the signal handler) Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]