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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: event-driven X11
Message-ID: <8906231745.AA07649@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 23 Jun 89 17:45:54 GMT
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Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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>                                 if the X protocol would support a scheme where
> i could get an interrupt when one of my selected XEvents occurs, then this
> problem would be solved.

The X Protocol has nothing to do with this.  It depends on your operating
system and the transport being used.  Under many UNIX systems you can request
that SIGIO be delivered on ConnectionNumber(dpy).