fj@iesd.dk (Frank Jensen) (05/06/89)
The NeWS manuals suggest the following scheme in order to synchronize a client with the NeWS server: SOME_TAG tagprint uniquecid typedprint datum_1 typedprint ... datum_n typedprint [currentcid cidinterest] forkeventmgr waitprocess pop But suppose that the client responds very fast (perhaps because it has nothing to do), isn't it then possible that the process will be forked too late (with the result that something will hang)? I have experienced something that seems to confirm this (although I must confess that I had a `setstandardcursor' command before the fork command). Is it said anywhere in the NeWS manuals that this can't happen? Or is it implicitly guaranteed to be impossible? Frank Jensen, fj@iesd.dk Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Aalborg University DENMARK