Re: Forcing application to process events

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From: Steve "Daffy" Hunt
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 20:23

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In article <131133@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> hvr@sun.UUCP (Heather Rose) writes:
>3.  Use the XView toolkit.  The XView notifier supplies a function which
>is tailored to your needs, notify_do_dispatch().  

Yes, but what a shame Sun did not try to write it portably.  I am
referring to the very dubious technique of redefining syscall wrappers
for read, select (and something else) and then using some parochial
method for accessing the 'real' syscalls.  Wacky.

					Steve Hunt.

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From: steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "Daffy" Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Forcing application to process events
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Date: 13 Feb 90 20:23:06 GMT
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