Re: forking a new mainwindow from a module

[zentara <zentara zentara net>]

On Fri, 6 May 2005 19:10:29 -0400
muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote:

> On May 6, 2005, at 5:42 PM, zentara wrote:
>
> > Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?
>
> What's happening is that the child is inheriting the X connection 
> socket from the parent, and both the child and parent are trying to 
> communicate over the same socket.  It blows up just like two threads 
> trying to talk at the same time.
>
> I presume that the Tk version didn't do that because it initializes X 
> differently.  It works with other programs because they're not fighting 
> for the same X connection.
>
> Here's a minor hack of your module to exec itself in the child to force 
> the socket to close.

Thanks for showing me that clever mechanism. I had to add a bit
of defined testing, but it works.

if ((defined  $ARGV[0]) and  ($ARGV[0] eq 'GMeM')){.......

Another snippet for the "ole bag-o-tricks" :-)


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