From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 16 0:14:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-b.bcc.ac.uk (mail-b.bcc.ac.uk [144.82.100.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5AD14C0C for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 00:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dlombardo@excite.com) Received: from medphys.ucl.ac.uk (actually host bach.medphys.ucl.ac.uk) by mail-b.bcc.ac.uk with SMTP (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Sun, 16 May 1999 08:14:14 +0100 Received: from marley.medphys (marley [128.40.233.29]) by medphys.ucl.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA25735 for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 08:14:12 +0100 (BST) Received: from excite.com by marley.medphys (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA13396; Sun, 16 May 1999 08:14:18 +0100 Message-ID: <373E705D.E8026F48@excite.com> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 08:14:37 +0100 From: Dean Lombardo Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: threads and Xlibs? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why does X have multi-thread support disabled by default? Quite a few programs (e.g. freeamp) give nasty "Xlib: unexpected async reply" errors due to making X calls from more than one thread. Now that threads and libc_r are part of the system (and have been for a while), perhaps Xlibs should be built thread-safe? Has anyone trying compiling XFree86 with multi-thread support enabled? Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message