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Re: XFree86 and Threads...



Dale Martin <dmartin@ececs.uc.edu> writes:

> I was just curious - since libc6 is thread safe, and GUIs seem to be
> something that can be "naturally" multithreaded, is XFree86
> multithreaded under Linux? (or any other system, for that matter?)
> 
> I'm about to get a second PPro for my box at home, and I already have
> SMP at work, so the prospect of a multithreaded X is quite interesting
> to me.

Now that xlib6g and xlib6g-dev have been released (thanks Mark), the
answer should be yes, but I haven't tried it yet.  Note that you need
to be running unstable, and you have to complile all your code with
-D_REENTRANT.  There's information about X and threads in the book
"Programmers Supplement for Release 6", another one of those "X"
books.

-- 
Rob


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