| Title: | DECWINDOWS |
| Notice: | DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 SSB kits: note 5519 |
| Moderator: | GRIM::MESSENGER |
| Created: | Wed Nov 28 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5861 |
| Total number of notes: | 24081 |
Hi,
Clicking on the Cancel button for example from the
Session Manager: Clock Qualifiers
leads to a disappearing of DECterminal created via
Session Manager
How to reproduce :
1) Session Manager
Options
Menus...
Add menu entry test
@decw$user_defaults:t.com
$ typ t.com
$ create/term
$ exit
under Applications
2) Creating a DECterminal via Application menu entry test
3) Selecting Application
Clock ...
Clicking on the Cancel button ( Clock Qualifiers )
4) DECterminal disappear
Before entering an IPMT I would like to know if this is known bug
and if so is there any workaround for it ?
My important customer starts his applications in a DECterminal like :
$ CREATE/TERMIN command ( not starting DECterminals as detached processes )
from the Session Manager.
Regards,
Stefan
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| 5837.1 | Which version of DECWindows? | 4954::KIRBY | Mon May 05 1997 11:51 | 6 | |
Hi,
Which version of DECWindiws Motif are they using?
Martin Kirby
DECWindows for OpenVMS Project Manager
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| 5837.2 | GRIM::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Mon May 05 1997 17:54 | 27 | |
You need to use create/term/detach (preferably) or create/term/wait, not just create/term. create/term creates a DECterm window and creates a subprocess to run inside the DECterm window, and then create/term exits (returns to DCL). The process that was created to run create/term doesn't exit immediately because the DECwindows Session Manager (FileView) caches processes for possible re-use. A few minutes later if the process isn't reused the Session Manager will terminate the process, which also terminates all of its subprocesses including the subprocess running inside of the DECterm window. You're probably seeing an interaction with the Clock command because if you start Clock soon enough after starting DECterm the create/term process will be reused and become a Clock process, which means that the DECterm window won't go away. If you click on Cancel then Clock won't be started. I'm not sure if the Session Manager will terminate the (create/term) process that was going to be used for Clock at this point. create/term/detach creates a detached process instead of a subprocess to run inside the DECterm window, so it won't be affected by the create/term process exiting. create/term/wait tells the create/term program not to exit to DCL until its subprocess has exited. This is a less desirable solution because it wastes a process slot, but it's needed sometimes because you can't pass a command line to the created process when you use create/term/detach. -- Bob | |||||
| 5837.3 | NNTPD::"[email protected]" | Mon May 12 1997 04:03 | 14 | ||
Hi Bob, Thanks for your advice. I found the following workaround for the customer : Start the Command Procedure T.COM $ CREAT/TERM/INPUT=DECTERM-INPUT.DAT/DETACH $ exit from the Session Manager $ TYPE DECTERM-INPUT.DAT $ MC DECW$CLOCK [Posted by WWW Notes gateway] | |||||