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Subject: Re: -mwindows and hour glass
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:10:22AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 18 June 2007 23:18, Christopher Wingert wrote:
>
>> Ummm, Ok, thanks for the response, but the program is...
>> 
>> <bof>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> 
>> int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
>> {
>>    sleep( 5 );
>> }
>> <eof>
>> 
>> 
>> # gcc t.c -o t -Wl,--subsystem,windows
>> 
>> Starting this from explorer results in a 5 second busy hour glass and (of
>> course), explorer is unresponsive until the program ends.
>
>Can't reproduce.  What version of 'doze are you using?  I get the
>hour-glass-with-arrow cursor for five seconds, but explorer still
>responds.

...and an hourglass is what you'd expect since there is no
whatchamacallit loop processing windows events.  A program which is
built with -mwindows is supposed to be processing windows events.

cgf

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