[Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:41:36PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jdw at eng.uah.edu> flavor, containing:
> 
> > 1. Why are three processes starting every time Xastir runs and what are the 
> > other processes doing?
> 
>  I dunno, but they are supposed to be there.  add different flags to ps and 
>  you can see the parent process id and see that they're all related.  

In most cases, the individual processes are actually the multiple threads
of xastir.  One for the GUI in the main thread, one for each interface.  Might 
be another one in there for something else.  Some OSs don't do separate
processes for each thread (FreeBSD 4.x was such an OS) but I do believe
that most of the newer ones do.

Can't explain your lock-ups, though.  Are you using any kind of USB adapter?
I thought I'd heard that some folks have had trouble with them, especially
on Macs.  I use them routinely and continously on my BSD and Linux systems with 
no problem, but that could be what's at the root of your issue.  Just a guess.

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