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In article mattb@sdd.hp.com (Matt Bonner) writes:
>In article mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
>|> In article cs000hf@selway.umt.edu (Hong Fan) writes:
>|> 
>|> > and Why X libraries are not reentrant?,
>|> 
>|> Because it's a lot of work and nobody's been willing to do it.
>|> 
>
>Am I remembering right that R6, the multi-threaded X server, will have
>to re-write all the calls to be re-entrant?  If so, there's the thing
>to hope and pray for, I guess.

The multi-thread X server and multi-thread Xlib are two different things.  
Stephen Gildea presented a paper at the X Tech. Conference, which is 
published in full in Volume 5 of the X Resource.  I'll let Stephen go 
into more detail here, if more is necessary.

In a nutshell however, it has been publicly stated that R6 will have both 
the multi-thread X Server and multi-thread Xlib.

Unfortunately, Xt and the Widgets are not re-entrant, so the mere avail-
ability of threaded Xlib won't allow applications Xt-based applications
to use threads...

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Kaleb Keithley                               kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov