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Article #37909Re: X & Signals
From: Heather Rose
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 23:23
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 23:23
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In article <9003052147.AA25962@expo.lcs.mit.edu> PARCEL@INTELLICORP.COM (Scott Parcel) writes: > >Our need to process events within a signal handler comes from the following >constaints: > 1. Arbitrary, mostly unconstrained and uncooperative code may be running > within the same process as our X code. > 2. We want to handle any x events that occur even while this arbitrary > code is running. > 3. We do not believe that it is practical to separate our X code into > a separate process. >I know this is considered a bad idea, however I am very familiar with writing >event driven code and multiprocess applications and it does not appear that >these solutions will do the trick this time. I am presently looking into >how to detect having interupted nonreentrant system library calls. Take a look at the XView notify code. It sounds to me that this is just what you're looking for. <X11R4>/contrib/toolkits/XView/lib/libxvin/notify. Regards, Heather
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!texbell!texsun!newstop!sun!kimba!hvr From: hvr@kimba.Sun.COM (Heather Rose) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X & Signals Message-ID: <132766@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 9 Mar 90 23:23:43 GMT References: <9003052147.AA25962@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: hvr@sun.UUCP (Heather Rose) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 21