diff -up xinit-1.0.9/xinit.c.client-session xinit-1.0.9/xinit.c
--- xinit-1.0.9/xinit.c.client-session	2008-05-21 14:09:16.000000000 -0400
+++ xinit-1.0.9/xinit.c	2008-08-25 09:57:56.000000000 -0400
@@ -727,11 +727,21 @@ startClient(char *client[])
 {
 	setWindowPath();
 	if ((clientpid = vfork()) == 0) {
+		int fd;
 		if (setuid(getuid()) == -1) {
 			Error("cannot change uid: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 			_exit(ERR_EXIT);
 		}
-		setpgid(0, getpid());
+		fd = open ("/dev/null", O_RDONLY);
+
+		if (fd < 0) {
+			Error("cannot open /dev/null: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+			_exit(ERR_EXIT);
+		}
+		close (STDIN_FILENO);
+		dup2 (fd, STDIN_FILENO);
+		close (fd);
+		setsid();
 		environ = newenviron;
 #ifdef __UNIXOS2__
 #undef environ