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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!decwrl!sgi!cdp!jeff
  2. From: Jeff Dean <jeff@igc.org>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
  4. Date: 21 Jul 92 00:15 PDT
  5. Subject: Re: Detecting when a WinExec'd prg term
  6. Sender: Notesfile to Usenet Gateway <notes@igc.org>
  7. Message-ID: <1668700005@igc.org>
  8. References: <18014.2a62f9a7@levels.unisa.edu.>
  9. Nf-ID: #R:18014.2a62f9a7@levels.unisa.edu.:-2126098115:cdp:1668700005:000:674
  10. Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!jeff    Jul 21 00:15:00 1992
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  14. >What do you mean unreliable?  Do you mean that if I have a notifyregister
  15. >callback I don't have to  let the message fall through to your program?
  16. >This would be very bad programming on somebody's part.  On the other
  17. >hand I can always nuke your program with TerminateApp() and you
  18. >couldn't do  anything about that either.
  19.  
  20. The scenario goes like this: I want to WinExec another program, then
  21. be notified when it terminates.  With NotifyRegister, if another
  22. program also requests notification, that program may catch the
  23. termination but not pass the information through, leaving me waiting
  24. for a notification that will never occur.
  25.  
  26.     Jeff Dean
  27.     jeff@igc.org
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