Inter process communication using Tk/send hangs on suspended processes

[Rob W. W. Hooft]

>>>>> "GM" == Greg McFarlane <gregm at iname.com> writes:


 GM> On 15 Feb, Rob W. W. Hooft wrote:
 >> I have a group of python programs. Whenever any new program is
 >> started, it will try to establish connections to each of the other
 >> ones using Tk/send (it is asking each for their background color,
 >> and will choose a new one for itself). 

 GM> The only things I can think of are to fork separate processes to
 GM> do each send and kill them if they do not respond quickly. 

That doesn't work, as this will result in X requests that arrive
out-of-order. As far as I know, no 2 processes can share their X
socket connection. I guess I'll have to investigate the "server"
concept.

Rob