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From: "Bill C Riemers" <cygwin AT docbill DOT net>
To: "Wayne" <dockeen AT mchsi DOT com>, <mark734213 AT yahoo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: installation problem
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 18:30:38 -0400
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> Note "Not responding" does not automatically mean locked up and not
> running...

What it does mean is the golden rule of event programming has been broken.  Any event which can potentially take more than one
second or so to process should be processed in a separate thread.

But I shouldn't really say anything, since I'm not volunteering to fix this problem.

                                                    Bill



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