[Meta] Re: A Lisp compiler?

[Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh at usa dot net>]

At 06:48 PM 2/2/99 -0500, you wrote:

> X-Face: meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow
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	meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

Besides wasting bandwidth, what the devil does this accomplish?

> X-Attribution: XF

Oh God please tell me you don't use XF Mail.

They had that installed on the X workstations at university once.
Then one day someone used XF and at some point it hung... was kill()ed and
reran. Then it shortly hung the whole X client. Client was killed and
restarted and logged back onto server. XF was run again and after a while
it hung. Client was frozen again. The guy killed the client, tried to log
back on, and found that all 20 of the LANned X servers were now unreachable.

They should have used Red Hat.
And they should have used another mail client...

I still have no idea how an X client app could do something to bring down
the X server it was using and then bring down everything connected to that
X server. I can only guess that when one server hung it left all the others
blocking on access to a shared file system. The hosts were reachable again
not too long after; I guess the file server timed out the first hung X
server and the others got to resume using it. That still leaves me
wondering how the devil the first server went down...

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