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- From: sjwright@cix.compulink.co.uk (Simon Wright)
- Subject: Re: Why X libraries are not reentrant?
- Cc: sjwright@cix.compulink.co.uk
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:06:00 +0000
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- Christophe Bruniau (bruniau@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr) wrote:
- > An example of such a problem is when one wants to process data from a network
- > while computing the MainLoop. Is the interleaving of busy waiting of Network
- > data and X events the only solution ?
-
- There's been some talk recently about the select() call being busy .. I
- don't know it, and most of my experience has been on VMS, where
- XtAppAddInput() seems to work well.
-
- On reentrancy, I seem to remember some locking code in Xlib, around the
- point where protocol requests are being packaged up. As I remember it
- it was #defined to have no effect.
-
- --
- Simon Wright
- Ferranti International, Naval Systems
-