01-29-2004
I'm very good at producing bugs myself. But this code has run as is for years. The server was moved last weekend but I don't think there were any os changes. By the way, the sabotage line came from a user (ex submariner) that decided his bugs had to be sabotage. But considering that these files contain the processes pid to ensure they don't get overwritten by another instance of the process it would have to be someone jerking my chain if they were getting removed. We have a high priced unix consultant here that told me that sort with the redirection causes a seperate process to occur and the redirection is asyncronous so he thought that the move was happening before the redirection flushed the buffers. He suggested that I could add a sleep 1 or rm x before the move and probably never have the problem again. Gill
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XltWorking(3X) XltWorking(3X)
NAME
XltWorking - Convenience function to display a Working dialog, and update the bar graph in the dialog.
SYNOPSIS
#include <Xlt/Xlt.h>
Boolean XltWorking(widget, question, percent_done)
Widget widget;
String question;
int percentdone;
DESCRIPTION
XltWorking Creates a dialog containing a message string, a bar showing the percentage of the task complete, and an abort button. When
called with a percent_done value of zero the dialog is managed, and a timer installed to update the bar every second. If question is not
NULL, the message string in the dialog is set to this. When called with a percent_done of 100, the dialog is un-managed. If called with a
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fires, and processes any pending timer and X events. If the return value is True, the user has requested that the task should be aborted.
widget The widget to wait for.
question
The message to display in the working dialog. Or NULL, meaning no change.
percent_done
The percentage of the task complete. 0 will cause the dialog to be managed. 100 will cause the dialog to be un-managed. -1 will
update the question only. Any value between 0 and 100 will update the bar graph.
RETURN VALUE
Boolean, if True the abort button was pushed, or the window was closed by the window manager.
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