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[gtk-list] Re: Best place to add -D_REENTRANT to build
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Browning)
Tue Jul 29 16:34:23 1997
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 1997 15:42:36 -0500
In-Reply-To: owt1@cornell.edu's message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:08:21 -0400 (EDT)"
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owt1@cornell.edu writes:
> Also, it probably isn't necessary to initialize X to be thread safe -
> since gtk isn't thread safe anyways.
Right, but I figured it fell into the couldn't hurt, might help
category -- planning for the future...
Say I have a big mutex around all the gtk stuff so that I can
guarantee that if I hold that mutex, no one else is inside gtk. Then
if X has been initialized properly and is thread safe, I can go ahead
and make a bunch of X calls from multiple threads (say to update
several video streams on several displays), and then release the mutex
and let gtk go about its business again.
--
Rob
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