re colormaps and window managers in article apr thunder mcrcim mcgill edu mouse thunder mcrcim mcgill edu der mouse writes in article c duhc p cs cmu edu das cs cmu edu david simon writes can some one please explain to me why the following piece of code causes twm or tvtwm to dump core in particular i am interested in knowing whether this behavior is caused by a bug in my reasoning or if it is a bug in twm if anything a client does causes twm to dump core it s a bug in twm window managers should never ever crash would if only it were true if only mit would fix the twm installwindowcolormaps crash bug once and for all then i could say that i ve almost unable to crash either twm or tvtwm which would be a remarkable feat and most desirable to boot i mean this bug has only been reported oh a zillion times by now now servers on the other hand want to crash an openwindows xnews server at will just do an xbiff xrm xbiff shapewindow on blammo greg earle phone fax internet earle isolar tujunga ca us uucp isolar earle elroy jpl nasa gov a k a elroy isolar earle
