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From: tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X & signals
Keywords: xwindows signals
Message-ID: <4559@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
Date: 26 Feb 90 17:29:49 GMT
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Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK)
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An example that is't bad to use signals in X programs is xfig-2.0.  At
least on HP-UX, it dumps core unless you #ifdef out the calls to
setitimer in blink.c.  (Xfig uses interval timers to make a blinking
cursor.)
-- 
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland