From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 4 06:35:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA26111 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 06:35:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ics.com (ics.com [140.186.40.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA26103 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 06:35:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaleb@ics.com) Received: from ics.com (kaleb@teapot.ics.com [140.186.40.160]) by ics.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id JAA15350; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 09:34:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35C70CB0.4592DCB7@ics.com> Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 13:29:20 +0000 From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.31 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threaded X libs.. References: <199808040211.LAA02226@cain.gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Hi, > I was trying to port a program which required thread safe X libs, so I > recompiled XFree86 after editing the config file for FreeBS, and it seemed to > work fine (OK, so I didn't exactly test it, but at least XInitThreads() now > works :) > > Is there any reason why the FreeBSD version of XFree86 doesn't enable threads > by default? Perhaps the port could have an option for it? (I can make a patch > for the port to do so if it would be useful :) When there's an officially released version of FreeBSD with threads, then I'm sure the default will be to enable threads in XFree86. The last time I tried building with threads, on some 3.0SNAP version, things didn't work very well (and I haven't spent any time trying to figure out why.) > > Also is there any chance that the thread cancellation routines will be > implented any time soon? :) In Xlib or in libc? -- Kaleb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message