home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3 / NN_1993_3.iso / spool / fj / maillis / xwindow / 19722 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1993-01-25  |  1.1 KB
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!monu6!adagio.panasonic.com!chorus.mei!oskgate0.mei!icspub!wnoc-kyo!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!scslwide!wsgw!wsservra!daemon
  2. From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Stephen Gildea)
  3. Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
  4. Subject: Re: Why X libraries are not reentrant?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.014016.26893@sm.sony.co.jp>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 01:40:16 GMT
  7. Sender: daemon@sm.sony.co.jp (The devil himself)
  8. Distribution: fj
  9. Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
  10. Lines: 14
  11. Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
  12.  
  13. Message-Id: <9301260044.AA03477@alex.lcs.mit.edu>
  14. 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>
  15. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:44:12 EST
  16.  
  17. Kaleb's summary is good, but I do want to add one small point.
  18. Multi-threading allows you to handle re-entrancy, but it is not
  19. the same thing.
  20.  
  21. With a threads environment which allows per-thread signal handling,
  22. you can have a different thread from any threads already in Xlib
  23. safely call Xlib from a signal handler.
  24.  
  25.  < Stephen
  26.    MIT X Consortium
  27.