Re: [Pkg-grass-general] Re: mapserver work

[Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>]

> >would you mind explaining the "thread-safe problem" to
> >the list in more detail?  The more of us that
> >understand it, the more we might be able to work for a
> >solution.

In general....


Here is a short explanation of multi-threading:
  http://everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=483339
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_safe


making things safe for threads generally means you can make the program
safe to spawn new processes so that things can run more efficiently on
multi-processor computers e.g. .. it's a coordination problem.


I think a similar bug is keeping GRASS's NVIZ from working with Debian's
Tcl/tk 8.4.



Hamish