Re: thread support?
Richard.Dansereau@EE.UManitoba.CA writes:
> I haven't found any of the Xlib stuff thread safe either. I'm doing
> some development using Xlib and did some basic testing under threads
> and found it would hang X-windows or even crash X-windows when
> trying to do threaded X-window calls. I have found though that you
> can do threaded development using the current non-thread safe X
> libraries by carefully organizing your code. I've relagated ONE
> thread to do ALL of my X calls, and the other threads to do my other
> number crunching. I've had no problems with this and everything
> seems to work find. It is a bit difficult though to design the code
> just right.
You might want to look at
/usr/doc/libc6/README.Xfree3.2.linuxthreads.gz after installing libc6.
I don't know if the default Debian X packages have this built in yet
or not...
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