[Xcb] use of xcb in a thread safe program

[Barton C Massey]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705200801310.25391 at grozny.maths.univ-evry.fr> you wrote:
> I do not know anything about threads (well, a bit :) ), so I would like to 
> know a bit more how I can use xcb with Gstreamer (or a any thread safe 
> lib). That is, even if xcb is thread safe, should I use mutex to lock (at 
> one step of the prog) or not ? Or can I use xcb like if threads didn't 
> exists (that is, as in a beautiful world :) ) ?

The latter.  It's one of the explicit XCB design goals.  You
may find bugs, since this hasn't been extensively tested,
but if you do we'll fix 'em.

    Bart