Re: FVWM: Fix for FvwmTaskBar w/Grant McDorman's Patch

From: Grant McDorman <grant_at_isgtec.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 97 16:05 EDT

> I've been working on FvwmTaskBar with the miniicons patch and Grant McDorman's
> patch applied and I've found that it can be made to work correctly if you
> change all the references to signal_pipe[0] to signal_pipe[1] and
> signal_pipe[1] to signal_pipe[0].

> The problem is that signal_pipe[0] is a read-only pipe and signal_pipe[1] is a
> write to pipe and the patch has them coded backwards.
>
> This takes care of FvwmTaskBar not responding to fvwm telling it to die (for
> example, when fvwm closes or when you send it a close event.)

Must be a Unix-flavour thing. On Solaris 2.5 (my platform), both [0] and [1]
are read-write, so I picked an arbitrary direction... and, as is usual for
any 50% chance thing, I picked the wrong one <grin>. Ah well. (Yes, I did
test it - really.)

Grant McDorman <grant_at_isgtec.com>
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Received on Fri Sep 05 1997 - 15:15:24 BST

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