🚀 go-pugleaf

Geez, not only did I forget to proofread my last message, I forgot
to *finish* it before I posted it.. It's been a very long week....

My previous message was supposed to look like this:

In article <4429@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> JONESD@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (David Jones) writes:
> Instead of hacking up tookits to allow your application to add signal handlers,
> I'd rather see them hacked up to convert signals into client events.  The
> application would deal with with the signal as another event to deal and
> not as something to be dealt with by a signal handler.

That's fundamentally the same thing I'm talking about.  That is,
you should register signals and handlers (functions) for those
signals with a toolkit or its intrinsics (Xt, in this case).  The
toolkit calls the function registered for the signal in case one
is delivered.  However, the idea about converting signals into
events doesn't make sense -- signals don't happen in windows [%]
and they don't have any of the associated values that accompany
existing X events such as a serial #, window ID, x/y values, etc...
Signals are associated with processes, not X clients.  The problem
may become more complicated as subprocesses are created (fork(),
for example).

[%] SIGWINCH is a possible exception and an interesting case..
altho not that interesting...

    From: PARCEL@INTELLICORP.COM (Scott Parcel)
    Subject: X & Signals
    Message-ID: <9002281442.aa11275@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
    Date: 28 Feb 90 19:37:02 GMT

    I have some questions and comments about the recent discussion of
    handling events inside of Unix signal handlers.  My particular
    interest is in using signals to do all X event processing.

Can you please explain this?  This makes no sense to me.
What kind of interface do you provide for an application
that does nothing but trap signals?  What kind of functionality
does such an application serve?

dan
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