Re: FVWM: FvwmPerl's problem with detach() behaviour

From: Rusty Phillips <rustyp_at_freeshell.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:26:35 -0500

Yeah, I'm done. No more code from me on this. To tell the truth, I
have done nearly as much work if I had realized that detach was just
broken. I thought it was supposed to do that before I read through
FvwmPerl.

> > while($g==0) { } \
>
> This is endless loop.

Actually it's not. The only thing that can make g==0 is another
process. It's a locking mechanism to guarantee that only one copy of
xwd is running at a time, because xwd is not thread safe. It's a hack.
Watch the process listings while running this and you'll see that it
works.

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