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From: jmr1g@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (Jeremiah M. Ratner)
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Subject: X and fork
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Subject: X and fork()
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Apologies if this has been covered before, but i have an X application
that forks, and i would like to send requests to the server via the
single, shared connection.  It doesn't seem that this is possible. Is
it the case that the server maintains a connection per client, and a 
child and parent count as 2 clients?  Doesn't the child inherit the parent's
file descriptor for the connection?  In any case, is there any a parent and
child can communicate with a single server without the child's opening
a separate connection?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jerry Ratner  (jerry@trident.datasys.swri.edu)