Using Xlib in multithread enviroment

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Tue Sep 7 10:42:16 PDT 2004


Deron Johnson wrote:
> >>>is XLIB multithread safe?
> >>
> >>On Friday I had pretty much come to the conclusion that Xlib
> >>is NOT multithread safe, even when XInitThreads is called.
> >
> > Did you test that with X11R6.8 or the current Solaris 9 libraries ?
> 
> X11R6.8

And which extension library is causing problems ? Lots of work has been
invested since X11R6.6 to make the varius extension libraries thread
safe - and at least Mozilla can now(=X11R6.8RC4) run safely in
thread-safe mode without hangs...

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Bye,
Roland

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