Re: [Update REQ 5079]: Problem with 1.4.2

["Stuart Levy" <slevy>]

> Further, I find that the gvx process keeps running
> constantly, taking up all of the cpu. Is this normal?

Ah, now I see -- this problem appears only on Solaris.  Their poll() function
(which emulates BSD select()) returns immediately if asked about a named pipe
which no process has open for writing, while select() simply blocks until
some process starts writing to it.

There's a fix for this in the next release, out pretty soon.  Meanwhile, you
could make geomview quiet down by running the following shell command:

   sleep 999999 > /tmp/geomview/Mathematica &

Start this some time after Mathematica first starts geomview,
so that the /tmp/geomview/Mathematica named pipe is actually created.
You can just leave the "sleep ..." running indefinitely, and it should cure
all future copies of geomview (on that Sun).

   Stuart