On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:49:18PM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote: > On Nov 2, 2007 10:02 PM, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, if that's the reason I tend to write a read()-based getline > > function which does not block ;) > > Try doing this: > > for i in `seq 1 10` > do > echo -n bla > if test "$i" = 5 > then > echo > fi > sleep 3 > done | dwm > > Than dwm will be unresponsive for a while, after some time it'll > update the statustext as "blablablablabla" and continue to be > unresponsive.
Well I extended the old low-level approach with an offset handling, and your example and all others work really quite well now (recheck hg tip). One thing which behaves differently now is, that dwm will drop subsequent multiline data except the first line during a single read(). This approach makes the algorithm more readable and elegant, and usually nobody writes more than a single line to dwm per status update. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
