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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> [snip]
> They wouldn't really need to communication back and forth.  The first app
> sets up the desktop, spawns the second app, and waits for it to terminate.
> Then second app could then use its exit code to specify to the first app
> whether the program succeeded or failed or whatever.
>
I supppose that is true normally.  But in this case the child process needs
to tell the parent process how well the user has done on a given test so
that the parent process can setup a timer based on the score and whatever
policy has been established by the parent or teacher.  I.e., if the user
(assumed to be a child still in elementary school in this case) aces an
elementary test, he gets to use the computer for half an hour, but if he
aces the hardest test, he gets to use the computer for three hours, or
whatever the parent or teacher believes to be appropriate.  So I guess the
communication is only one way: from the child back to the parent.

You might ask "What happens after the allotted time has expired?"  The
parent process will give the user the options either of logging off or of
returning to my program with its own desktop, in order to try again with a
more challenging test.

Cheers,

Ted