[ale] X hangs at start

[Chris Fowler]

The only thing I can say is the find out where you're hanging and debug
that.  Most hangs happen inside system calls.  use strace and determine
what call you are hanging on.  Or you could be in a poll() loop.  Who
knows.


On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 12:14, John Wells wrote:
> Chris Fowler said:
> >>tty > /dev/null && stty -ixon -ixoff
> >
> > Why would you want to send the output of the tty command to /dev/null.
> > All it does is disply the controlling ttyname to STDOUT.
> 
> I assume to make sure you are connected via a terminal before executing stty.
> 
> Course, I'm not sure what situations the file would be evaluated in while
> not connected via a terminal.
> 


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