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  1. Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!INTERNET!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines
  3. From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
  4. Subject: Re: Why X libraries are not reentrant?
  5. Message-ID: <9301260044.AA03477@alex.lcs.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
  7. Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
  8. References: <1993Jan14.232031.9316@selway.umt.edu> <1993Jan19.025831.19583@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <1jk9kpINN2n5@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com> <1993Jan21.174432.24877@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
  9. Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:44:12 GMT
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  12. Kaleb's summary is good, but I do want to add one small point.
  13. Multi-threading allows you to handle re-entrancy, but it is not
  14. the same thing.
  15.  
  16. With a threads environment which allows per-thread signal handling,
  17. you can have a different thread from any threads already in Xlib
  18. safely call Xlib from a signal handler.
  19.  
  20.  < Stephen
  21.    MIT X Consortium
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