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Article #37865Re: Problem with Signals
From: Rob Gabbard
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 15:35
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 15:35
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In article <132645@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, hvr@kimba.Sun.COM (Heather Rose) writes:
> In this example, you should use two processes. One does the 7 hour calculation,
> the other handles the window interface.
We are using a similar architecture to this model you are descibing.
What if your window interface was doing a ray trace into a pixmap that took
a longer time to do than your timer interval ? That is where the real danger is.
> If you were to use XView for this, you would not even need signal handling
Sorry, we're DECWindows/Motif based.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sdrc!evgabb From: evgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Problem with Signals Summary: Still more problems ..... Message-ID: <1179@sdrc.UUCP> Date: 8 Mar 90 15:35:00 GMT References: <9002281729.AA02895@wilkins.bcm.tmc.edu> <132399@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <132645@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati Lines: 19