oops: Performer Notice: Caught SIGCHLD. Exiting due to death of child with pid 1680.

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Jon Christensen (jmc++at++UCSD.EDU)
Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:06:19 -0700


Hi Tawfek,

Actually I should have read your note closer -- if the window is
opening you aren't experiencing the problem I referred to.

I have gotten mail from several others with the same
pfuGLXWinopen() problem, though, so I hope our experience is still
helpful to someone out there. :)

-- Jon

>>>> Tawfek Mukhtar writes:

tm> [elided]
tm> Anyway the program compile fine but every time I tried to
tm> change the view I got "Performer Notice: Caught
tm> SIGCHLD. Exiting due to death of child with pid 1680." I have
tm> included the program with this mail. Can anyone help me with
tm> this ?

tm> [elided]

>>>> Jon Christensen wrote:

jc> Hi Tawfek,
jc> This looks like a bug that we and a few others have also
jc> encountered -- it appears that pfuGLXWinopen() is broken under
jc> Performer 2.0.2 and IRIS GL.

jc> In our case, we worked around this by taking the plunge and porting
jc> to OpenGL. The other options would appear to be using (1)
jc> Performer 2.0 and waiting for a fix (2.2?), or (2) avoiding this
jc> input model (e.g., do what 'perfly' does by default, not what it
jc> does when invoked as 'perfly -x').

jc> Good luck,
jc> Jon Christensen

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