Re: Fwd: Screen sharing between multiple processes

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Gasler Radu wrote:

> What happens if two different processes write at the same time to the
> same screen, although they are affecting idependent windows ?

It's still the same screen, and all of the windows share the global
variables stdscr, curscr.  So it won't work.

> What if the two processes would syncronize and wait one eachother to
> finish the screen writing jobs ?

Assuming that - but also note that wgetch() does a wrefresh().
Usually the questions about multithreading arise in the context of
input in one thread and output in multiple threads.

> Is the behaviour in these situations documented ?

no, it is "unspecified"

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