Re: [rox-users] Rox in Xinerama?

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:06:18AM +0100, Geoff Youngs wrote:
[...]
> Which leads on to the topic of ROX's IPC as used for communicating
> between processes.  It works fine most of the time, but it is not
> reliable, because it relies on an X property of an invisible window not
> changing inbetween the time that X sends the PropertyNotify message to
> ROX and the time that ROX reads the value of the property from the
> invisible window.
> 
> If you want an example (albeit unlikely in normal usage), then try
> finding a large directory (e.g. /usr/lib) and running 
>   for i in *; do (rox -s $i &); done
> And see how long it is before your terminal window is filled with
> messages telling you that the exisiting ROX-Filer is not responding.

That's not unreliable, it's just slow. If you open a few hundred windows,
it will slow the X server down so much that the 15 seconds (or whatever it
is) timeout will trigger and the sender will give up. You'd see exactly
the same with D-BUS, if you used the same timeout.


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