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From: cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  IPC problem
Message-ID: <9011152256.AA03216@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 22:56:37 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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>> I have an application which needs to read data off a socket.  I can 
>> arrange for it to be sent a ClientMessage when this data is to be
>> transmitted, but since the amount of data could be fairly large (though
>> I'm working to keep it of moderate size), I'd rather not have the
>> application simply sit there (vis a vis X) while reading data.  I'd
>> like to be able for it to respond to Expose events and the like while
>> still receiving data.  Is there a reasonable way to do this?  I'm using
>> just Xlib ons a SPARCStation running OpenWindows 2.0.  Thanks!
>
> On Unix systems you can obtain the file descriptor of the X connection.

I managed to leave out how you do this (the sort of that happens if
I post messages before drinking my morning coffee).  The macro
ConnectionNumber (display) will return the file descriptor.

			Chris Flatters