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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Top 50 Killers (12/7/92-19/7/92)
- In-Reply-To: buboo@alf.uib.no's message of Wed, 22 Jul 92 06:38:03 GMT
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- References: <1992Jul21.055654.10460@newshost.anu.edu.au> <CKD.92Jul21121951@loiosh.eff.org>
- <1992Jul22.063803.19673@alf.uib.no>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:03:05 GMT
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- Ove> == Ove Ruben R Olsen <buboo@alf.uib.no>
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- Ove> Is this client using select () ; or fork () ; ?
-
- select(). The problems were in the screen interface handling code; on
- one occasion, the word-wrap module went insane and started sending
- output to the terminal as fast as it could. Since it was on a local
- xterm process rather than a "real terminal", that was pretty fast.
- (Unfortunately so fast that the window manager was getting cycle-starved
- from all the updates the X server was trying to deal with.)
-
- Note to implementors: be very careful how you do word-wrap :)
-
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