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Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 17:43:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: Unloading GEOM classes 
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In message <20040519165626.W4275@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>, Lukas Ertl writes:
>Hello fellow GEOM hackers,
>
>I'd like to get the discussion about unloading GEOM classes rolling again,
>and I'm really pleading for a change of the current code in geom_subr.c.

OK, I just checked with peter@ and he belives that we can simply do
a DROP_GIANT() ... PICKUP_GIANT() in the g_modevent() and avoid the
need for the eventqueue there.

Can somebody try that ?

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