On Sep 9, 1997, at 11:30, Rob Browning wrote: > Dale Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?) > > 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.
>From what I understand, just recompiling X won't give you anything. You would have to rewrite parts of it (probably very big chunks...) to be able to actually run the server in multiple threads. > Rob -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
