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> I am currently designing a widget toolkit for nano-X and was wondering abt
> how much of the unix architecture can be put to use. Will it be okay to
use
> unix signal, fork calls and system V ipc for example?

I think we should add some Nano-X IPC to allow client-client
communications.  But if you use signal and fork, then we'll have
to run on Linux, and you're widget set won't run on non-Linux systems.
That's not that big a deal, except there are an increasing number of
folks using Microwindows on non-Linux systems...

IMHO, a graphics widget set shouldn't require fork(), and possibly
not signal().  If the widget set is doing other cool stuff, then that
widget could become Linux-dependent.  The IPC stuff should
to into Nano-X server API.

Regards,

Greg




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> Amit Kulkarni
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