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From: dpg@citi.umich.edu (David Gorgen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Multiplexing X events with other events (IPC)
Summary: Use ConnectionNumber()
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Date: 8 Oct 90 15:46:55 GMT
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In article <9010051535.AA15148@mwunix.mitre.org> m20563@MWVM.MITRE.ORG (JOHN PYBURN) writes:
> We are attempting to come up with an event based loop that would deal with
> both an X event and some type of Interprocess Communication Event (RPC,
> socket, something else ?). Anybody out there done anything like this ?
> 
> i.e. Either doing a select or an ec2_$wait on both x events and other events ?
> *        Thanks Much,
> *                    John
> *        Internet jpyburn@mitre.org

You can use the Xlib macro ConnectionNumber or routine XConnectionNumber
to get the file descriptor of the connection to the X server.  Once you
have that you can use it in a select call with whatever other fd's you
want.

    --  Dave Gorgen
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Dave Gorgen / GTD-East (formerly Apollo Computer), Hewlett-Packard Company
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