From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36109 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jaap-Henk Hoepman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: External MIME viewers are killed when switching article. Why? Date: 03 May 2001 21:03:11 +0200 Organization: University of Twente, Department of Computer Science Sender: hoepman@cs.utwente.nl Message-ID: References: <87oftae0pj.fsf@wesley.springies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171749 6809 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:42:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 29920 invoked by alias); 3 May 2001 19:03:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29915 invoked from network); 3 May 2001 19:03:16 -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 19:03:16 -0000 Original-Received: (from hoepman@localhost) by utip202.cs.utwente.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f43J3Bl01129; Thu, 3 May 2001 21:03:11 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: utip202.cs.utwente.nl: hoepman set sender to hoepman@cs.utwente.nl using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87oftae0pj.fsf@wesley.springies.com> 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: 35 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36109 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36109 I tried that; problem is, staroffice itself is started through a wrapper scripts spawning several other programs. The nohup doesn't protect against xemacs `killing' those. Jaap-Henk On Thu, 03 May 2001 14:39:38 -0400 Alan Shutko writes: > Jaap-Henk Hoepman writes: > > > 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. > > Well, you could nohup the application. You'll also have to make sure > the file it's loading is still there when it's done loading, since > iirc, Gnus will delete the file after the helper-app returns. > > Something like > > cp $1 $TMPDIR/$1.$$ > nohup soffice $TMPDIR/$1.$$ > > -- > Alan Shutko - In a variety of flavors! > Apathy Club meeting this Friday. If you want to come, you're not invited. -- 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