pinkas@hobbit.intel.com (Israel Pinkas ~) (04/10/89)
One of our users is writing an application that uses pipes to start up
other processes. (Similar to what xterm does.) He is concerned about
getting the subprocess output and X events. He does not want to "busy
wait", but is not sure what else to do. He currently adds the file
descriptor returned by the dpyno() macro to the select call, but is worried
that this is not portable. The O'Reilly books state that this is OK on
Unix, but what about other OS's? Does it actually work on all flavors of
Unix?
E-Mail replies, I'll summarize.
-Israel Pinkas
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CSNET: pinkas@cadev4.intel.combeirne@richsun.UUCP (Michael G. Beirne) (11/01/89)
Hello, Several programs running under X11R3, like kaleid and xemacs, use the select system call, which does not return after the expected timeout. I have a VAXstation II/GPX running Ultrix 2.2-1. The X server is the one from the distribution X11R3 MIT source. Does anyone know of a work around/fix for this? I just obtained the workstation a few weeks ago and have not been a regular reader of either group, so if this has been gone over before I'm sorry. Michael G. Beirne beirne@richp1.UUCP or beirne@richsun.reuter.com