alan@cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer) (10/24/90)
I have one more question about properties. Say I have two clients, A and B. Client A looks for some property in the root window and if it's not there, forks off another client. This client creates the property and tells client A (using a pipe) that it's now okay to get the value. After some work, client A exits successfully. Client B is still around. If I restart client A, it can never get the value of the property. Instead it forks off yet another client B. If I modify things so that client B gets the property value itself, immediately after creating the property and before notifying A, then client A doesn't have this trouble when it's restarted. Does anyone have any idea in the world what's happening here? It's consistent and doesn't make any sense at all to me. This is in OW 2.0 on a SPARCstation. -- -- Alan # My aptitude test in high school suggested that ..!ames!elroy!alan # I should become a forest ranger. Take my alan@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov # opinions on computers with a grain of salt.