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From: markv@gauss.Princeton.EDU (Mark VandeWettering)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: sproc(2) jobs updating the same window ?
Keywords: sproc(2) gl-windows
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Date: 13 Aug 90 14:45:22 GMT
References: <4687@biophys.zir.ethz.ch>
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In article <4687@biophys.zir.ethz.ch> messerli@biophys.zir.ethz.ch (Marius Messerli) writes:

>I tried to creat multiple processes with sproc(2). These processes
>should write into the same window to split the work to different 
>cpu's. The job sharing works if I do something else (no gl operations) 
>but fails to do anything upon gl-calls. 

You may not do this in SGI IRIX v3.2 or before, but I believe that restriction
is about to be lifted in version 3.3.  

Mark