Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:36:58 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threads and Xlibs? Message-ID: <19990516183658.I9622@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <373E705D.E8026F48@excite.com>; from Dean Lombardo on Sun, May 16, 1999 at 08:14:37AM %2B0100 References: <373E705D.E8026F48@excite.com>
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On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 08:14:37AM +0100, Dean Lombardo wrote: >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? If someone who knows enough about the issues would like to sort this out, then we at XFree86 will make the necessary changes. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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