Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!pacbell.com!mips!smsc.sony.com!dce
From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Can 2 Unix Processes Write into the Same Window?
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.181341.2831@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 20 Jan 91 18:13:41 GMT
References: <276@silogic.UUCP> <1991Jan19.193317.24112@athena.mit.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
Lines: 9

In article <1991Jan19.193317.24112@athena.mit.edu> bjaspan@athena.mit.edu (Barr3y Jaspan) writes:
>appropriate window id*.  So if your two clients agree on the name of the
>window, then one of them can create it and the other could search the entire
>window tree until it found it.

Or you could use a property with a pre-determined name, and some kind
of locking mechanism to handle multiple runs styarting at the same time
(or just ignore that problem).  In the first X class I ever took, this
was one of the examples given for the use of properties.