[MPlayer-users] Re: Exits with broken pipe

[David Norris]

On 5/7/05, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > The proper fix is convincing the KDE (and other guys) that just sending
> > a SIGTERM to a process without asking the user is an extremely stupid
> 
> IMO they're not sending SIGTERM but the X "delete" command.

Yes, this is correct. Mplayer handles SIGTERM just fine as far as I
know; at least, I haven't seen any problems there. The problem is
triggered, as I said, by closing (deleting) the X window.

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David Norris
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