Re: XFree86 and Threads...

1997-09-11 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On 9 Sep 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > 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 alr

Re: XFree86 and Threads...

1997-09-10 Thread Richard . Dansereau
> [snip] > > > 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. I've had difficulties myself getting threads working properly with X-windows.

Re: XFree86 and Threads...

1997-09-10 Thread Carey Evans
"Gonzalo A. Diethelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > 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. I think it should be possible to do th

Re: XFree86 and Threads...

1997-09-10 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Dale" == Dale Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> I was just curious - since libc6 is thread safe, and GUIs Dale> seem to be something that can be "naturally" multithreaded, Dale> is XFree86 multithreaded under Linux? (or any other system, Dale> for that matter?) D

Re: XFree86 and Threads...

1997-09-10 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
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?

Re: XFree86 and Threads...

1997-09-09 Thread Rob Browning
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?) > > I'm about to get a second PPro for my box at home,

XFree86 and Threads...

1997-09-09 Thread Dale Martin
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