[Xcb] Problem selecting event input from different threads.

[Jamey Sharp]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Erik De Rijcke <derijcke.erik at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a fairly large program with a small part accessing xcb. It basically
> does the following:
> thread A: open a display; spawn thread b; listen for events.
> thread B: set event mask (substructure redirect mask on root window)
> What seems to happen is that thread A never gets any configure request
> events nor map requests. However when I replicate this exact code with Xlib
> with build in xcb backend, thread A does receive events.
> I'm guessing only the thread that sets the mask gets the events, is there a
> way to tell xcb to deliver the events to thread A or is this a possible bug?

I'm guessing this is a bug I finally tracked down yesterday. :-)

Can you re-test with current libxcb from git master?

I'm a little surprised you had success with current Xlib/XCB though. I
have some fairly hefty patches I'm testing right now (`ico -threads
16` is running on another desktop) to squash several Xlib threading
bugs. Have you noticed the Xlib version of your code dying sometimes
with assertion failures, or hanging?

Thanks,
Jamey