X font server does not like long PIDs
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Mar 17 18:01:46 PDT 2008
Stephan A. Maciej wrote:
> Hi,
>
> under Linux, you can set the maximum PID via doing
>
> echo N >/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
>
> Typically, N is 32768, so that PIDs are 5 digits or less. The X font server
> relies on this and fails to daemonize if the decimal representation of
> getpid()'s return value is longer than 5 digits. The following patch fixes
> the problem for me. Diff is against xfs-1.0.4.
Thanks - pushed to git master.
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