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In article <2888@bacchus.dec.com> asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente) writes:
>In article <132200@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@sun.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes:
>>The problem is that Xlib has no layer for signal handling.  The
>>reason is dubious, but it's in many people's opinion that it's
>>due to DEC's strong involvement with X and since DEC really likes
>>VMS (brought to the US on one of Columbus' ships circa 1492) and
>>VMS does not support signals...
>
>That's a pretty dubious explanation.  Try
>1) Xlib version 11 is still rather similar internally to Xlib version 10,
>which DEC had nothing to do with, and which didn't support signals either.
>2) The developers of X11 had a huge amount of stuff on their plates as
>it was, and putting signal handling in Xlib was one of the 143 things they
>would have liked to have done but didn't have time for.

This is very true...as anyone who has looked at the XView notifier code
will tell you ;-)

Regards,

Heather