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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: Killing Motif Applications on Sun
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:05:23 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1993Jan28.155737.4920@picker.com>
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- In article <1993Jan28.155737.4920@picker.com> kobet@xsun2a.ct.picker.com (Harry J Kobetitsch) writes:
- >I am trying to kill a Motif application by double clicking on the
- >top leftmost button. The application disappears but when doing a
- >ps -alx I still find that the application running. This is
- >running on a Sun SPARCstation IPX with Motif 1.1.4 installed.
-
- The X window system doesn't have anything that asynchronously interrupts
- client processes, the way Control-C does for normal Unix jobs. The
- application has to poll the server for events. If the application goes
- into an infinite loop and doesn't try to communicate with the X server then
- it will never notice that the window is gone.
-
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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