[Xcb] Nested XLockDisplay

Elias Naur elias.naur at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 03:16:13 PST 2007


On 1/4/07, Josh Triplett <josh at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> Nested calls to XLockDisplay, in the public API, work fine.  Nested calls to
> LockDisplay, in Xlibint.h, do not.  Things which trigger this assertion have
> used an internal-only call which only extension libraries should use.  In
> this case, as you mentioned in a later mail, libXrandr makes the problematic
> call.
>
> - Josh Triplett
>

Hi Josh,

Thank you for the explanation. I was confused by the "LockDisplay"
name, which I assumed was XLockDisplay the same way OpenGL specs strip
the "gl" prefix.

With that out of the way, is there anything I can do to help fix this
bug (apart from the test program and backtrace)?

 - elias


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