Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:05:51 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: OKAZAKI Tetsurou <okazaki@be.to> Cc: cpiazza@jaxon.net, bsletten@nova.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xmms-1.0.1 "runs slow" Message-ID: <20000215000551.A89205@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <86900n8k86.wl@dolphin.be.to> References: <20000213231258.B826@marder-1> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0002131815290.24230-100000@members.fcac.org> <20000214003909.B328@marder-1> <20000213180447.C9728@norn.ca.eu.org> <20000214182907.B333@marder-1> <86900n8k86.wl@dolphin.be.to>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 07:58:33AM +0900, OKAZAKI Tetsurou wrote:
> In the message <20000214182907.B333@marder-1>
> Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:04:47PM -0800, Chris Piazza wrote:
> > >
> > > If you build X from ports it will create a thread-safe Xlib... every
> > > machine I've tested this on had it (and also had no problems) so that
> > > may very well be the problem.
> > >
>
> > Well, I built XFree86 3.3.5 from the ports with no special flags etc.
> > Is there anyway I can check that my Xlibs are thread-safe? The fact
> > that xmms 0.9.5 worked fine suggests that they are, doesn't it?
>
> The XInitThreads(3X11) function is used to check the MT-safeness of
> the Xlib. For a example, prepare a simple test program:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <X11/Xlib.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> Display *d = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
> int status;
> status = XInitThreads();
> printf("%d\n", status);
> XCloseDisplay(d);
> exit(status);
> }
>
> as xinitthreads.c and compile it as follows.
>
> % cc -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include xinitthreads.c \
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -pthread
>
> If running ./a.out prints a non-zero number, your Xlibs are MT-safe.
>
Thanks. I have upgraded XFree86 to 3.3.6, tried your program and it
returns 1, so everything is fine but xmms sill displays the same
problems :(
> --
> Tetsurou
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