-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Jul 7, Christofer C. Bell did say: > When you are in runlevel 5, the X server is a child process of an X display > manager (either xdm, gdm, or kdm, dependant on system configuration). This > process watches for the X server exiting and automatically restarts it. > > When you press CTRL-ALT-BS in runlevel 5, the same thing is happening as in > runlevel 3 -- the X server itself is actually shutting down and exiting. The > X server appears to "restart itself" but what's actually happening is the > display manager starting a new X server instance. > > In runlevel 3, there is no display manager running so when the X server exits, > it must be restarted manually (from the command line prompt like was used to > start the previous instance). > > Hope this is useful information! It confirms and clarifies what I thought... either way, the parent process resumes when the child dies. And in run level 5, the parent process appears to be in an infinite loop of restarting the xserver when it resumes... In run level 3, the parent process is usually a command shell that waits for the next user command. (Though I imagine one could build a wrapper script that calls startx from a loop. But I can't see any advantage to that!) I just know that the only other "clean" way of closing the xserver so fast as when a runlevel 3, startx session gets the ctrl+alt+bs is the poweroff command... I have to presume that applications get less opportunity to save data than with logout. But so far I've not lost any data to it... - -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>> ############################################################## # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ # ############################################################## -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA709TRZ/61mwhY94RAtKlAJ9N30XGVQMOQKH9v4MWKiAuPFQzugCgszYC MUNFCTwhDTdUwCirOnuI56Q= =2NFT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
