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From: marko@mead.UUCP (Mark Osbourne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Signals and X--a problem
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Date: 31 Jul 90 21:08:52 GMT
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Reply-To: marko%mead@uccba.uc.edu (Mark Osbourne)
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We are currently working on an X Toolkit based program.  This program
receives signals every half-second, or so, because there is input to
be read.  In the signal routine, the data is read and then written to
an X window.

The problem we're having seems to be that the Xlib functions to create
the request for the server are being interrupted by another signal.
The errors we end up getting are mostly bad request, but others like
bad drawable occasionally show up.

Is this what's happening?  How can we guarantee that the Xlib
functions are not interrupted by other signals (short of resetting and
setting them again)?

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Mark Osbourne         marko@mead.UUCP          marko%mead@uccba.uc.edu