Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!dgharriss From: dgharriss@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dermot G. Harriss) Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.software Subject: fun & games: arconn .login recursion Message-ID: <29361@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 00:03:02 GMT Reply-To: dgharriss@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dermot G. Harriss) Distribution: uw Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo Lines: 7 .login was execing xinit -ls which forked xterm which sourced .login which exec'd xinit -ls which forked xterm which sourced .login which exec'd xterm -ls which forked xterm which sourced ... this had a negative effect on performance, caused unusual graphical effects, and generally made the station difficult to use productively. Termination condition was checked but never set. Fixed (I think) but not tested 'cause games is locked in arconn's office.