From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36105 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jaap-Henk Hoepman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: External MIME viewers are killed when switching article. Why? Date: 03 May 2001 20:26:17 +0200 Organization: University of Twente, Department of Computer Science Sender: hoepman@cs.utwente.nl Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171746 6790 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 29020 invoked by alias); 3 May 2001 18:26:23 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29014 invoked from network); 3 May 2001 18:26:22 -0000 Original-Received: from a194-109-241-161.adsl.xs4all.nl (HELO utip202.cs.utwente.nl) (194.109.241.161) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 May 2001 18:26:22 -0000 Original-Received: (from hoepman@localhost) by utip202.cs.utwente.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f43IQHU01067; Thu, 3 May 2001 20:26:17 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: utip202.cs.utwente.nl: hoepman set sender to hoepman@cs.utwente.nl using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #U;T;~,y.iVz7!wB(gVzSj:j}x-tZr\v-PQU}''7h^>jaAM'vw1KA83N5/gN~kcktG%,>Q>""S?Fg`&U80!Vg=)El,s/W)W^ User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Original-Lines: 24 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36105 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36105 When viewing a different article, all external MIME viewers opened on parts of the previous article are killed. Why? This is rather inconvenient if you have a large application like StarOffice that you use to view word documents, and this application is restarted for each arrticle. I tried specifying a small wrapper to handle the MIME type which in turn spawns the real application in the background, but this doesn't work. Apparently, Xemacs, when asked to delete a process, sends SIGHUP to _all_ processes in the process group. Is it possible to tell gnus not to kill viewers for certain mime types? Jaap-Henk -- Jaap-Henk Hoepman | Come sail your ships around me Dept. of Computer Science | And burn your bridges down University of Twente | Nick Cave - "Ship Song" Email: hoepman@cs.utwente.nl === WWW: www.cs.utwente.nl/~hoepman Phone: +31 53 4893795 === Secr: +31 53 4893770 === Fax: +31 53 4894590 PGP ID: 0xF52E26DD Fingerprint: 1AED DDEB C7F1 DBB3 0556 4732 4217 ABEF