On Jul 2, Steve Lamont wrote:
> > This works fine when I don't use the fork. But I can't use this form and
> > the main form (and the other forms) at the same time. When I use fork to
> > create a new process which should handle the "send signals" form the program
> > dies with an "Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x879)!" (the number
> > changes).
>
> One possibility is that when the child process dies or closes down, it
> is closing down the X connection to the server, which then causes Xlib
> in the parent to get massively confused since it gets a message from
> the server that really should be destined for the child (or, to be
> completely correct, never sent at all).
>
> What you need to do is to shut down the X connection on the child
> process so that when it goes away it doesn't try to communicate with
> the server. Do this by getting the connection number (the file
> descriptor under Unix) and issuing a close. Here's a little bit of
> test code I whomped up that does this:
With this change the "Xlib: unexpected async ..." message doesn't appear
anymore but I now get a different error.
XIO: fatal IO error 2 (Bad file number) on X server ":0.0"
after 1993 requests (1992 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Remember that the first things the child process does are to create a new
form and to wait for the user to press a button. With the X connection
closed the XForms commands probably won't work :-).
BTW: the "Xlib: ..." message appeared before the first form of the process
was shown (not after the process died).
Thanks,
Peter
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