Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 13:29:20 +0000 From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threaded X libs.. Message-ID: <35C70CB0.4592DCB7@ics.com> References: <199808040211.LAA02226@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Hi, > I was trying to port a program which required thread safe X libs, so I > recompiled XFree86 after editing the config file for FreeBS, and it seemed to > work fine (OK, so I didn't exactly test it, but at least XInitThreads() now > works :) > > Is there any reason why the FreeBSD version of XFree86 doesn't enable threads > by default? Perhaps the port could have an option for it? (I can make a patch > for the port to do so if it would be useful :) When there's an officially released version of FreeBSD with threads, then I'm sure the default will be to enable threads in XFree86. The last time I tried building with threads, on some 3.0SNAP version, things didn't work very well (and I haven't spent any time trying to figure out why.) > > Also is there any chance that the thread cancellation routines will be > implented any time soon? :) In Xlib or in libc? -- Kaleb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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