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From: steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "Daffy" Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Forcing application to process events
Message-ID: <1647@acorn.co.uk>
Date: 13 Feb 90 20:23:06 GMT
References: <9002011609.AA05640@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> <2654@bacchus.dec.com> <131133@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: steve@acorn.UUCP (Steve "daffy" Hunt)
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, UK
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In article <131133@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> hvr@sun.UUCP (Heather Rose) writes:
>3.  Use the XView toolkit.  The XView notifier supplies a function which
>is tailored to your needs, notify_do_dispatch().  

Yes, but what a shame Sun did not try to write it portably.  I am
referring to the very dubious technique of redefining syscall wrappers
for read, select (and something else) and then using some parochial
method for accessing the 'real' syscalls.  Wacky.

					Steve Hunt.