[PATCH libX11] Always initialise thread support
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Fri Jul 12 14:33:40 PDT 2013
Daniel Stone, le Fri 12 Jul 2013 22:25:38 +0100, a écrit :
> Make XOpenDisplay always call XInitThreads when opening a display, thus
> guarding it against possible disaster scenarios like calling
> XOpenDisplay without XInitThreads, then passing the Display pointer into
> an EGL library which uses threads. Or any of the other five similar
> failure scenarios I've seen just this week.
+1. We have issues in accessibility toolkits just because they use
threads to be able to work and can't manage to get XInitThreads called
before the application initializes X11.
Samuel
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