On 31 Aug 1999 17:57:55 +0200, Lars Gullik Bj°nnes wrote:
>Stephan Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>| LaTeX and Xdvi are children of LyX and directed by LyX to the
>| internally computed hidden tmp-directory. I'm aware of that
>| effect: If I close a file and reopen it again, then I have to
>| close my running Xdvi too, because it is useless now, when using
>| update->dvi. If I start Xdvi again it works ok. But there is no
>| mystery. LyX creates a new tmp-directory (as I can see with /bin/ls)
>| and starts working there. The update-dvi operation creates the
>| new dvi file in the new tmp-dir.
>|
>| latex doesn't delete and recreates the dvi file,
>| the contents of the dvi file will be replaced by latex/tex.
>
>Yes, and this should be now problem. Xdvi should not care (too much)
>that the file it views suddenly disappears. Ok, the xdvi is now
>defunct. Do you mean that it would be better if LyX killed the xdvi
>when it destroys teh buffer?
IMHO killing before any defunct is the cleanest solution and avoids
problems.
Otherwise you'll leave behind abandoned zombie-like processes haunting
your box (shudder :-)
Greets,
Arnd
