I am forking a (Unix) process from my perl script that handles Tk windows. The problem is I get two processes handling the same connections, so the unsurprising message: Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x514)!. So, short of forking the process that deal with windows after the other one, what is the appropriate way to stop the child to deal with X-event? I can think of a lot of dirty ways like searching (say thru /proc) the socket to X and closing it. But there is got to be a clean way.

BTW: I hate the look of Tk. But I must admit that the Tk::Text widget is way superior the current Gtk-Perl equivalent (based on gtk 1/2)

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In reply to forking in Tk and letting the dad alone deal with X stuff by stefp

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