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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
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Subject: Re: X input & select
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 09:31:06 EDT
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Asynchronous i/o has proven to be a very difficult area to tackle in an
os-independent manner.  Several alternatives have been discussed, but none
has yet been deemed entirely adequate.  If anyone has anything to offer
here, let us know.

Doing your own select() on the display fd is perfectly acceptable for now.
You just have to be careful to first ask XPending() if there is anything
remaining to process in Xlib's internal queue.

-Ralph