[PATCH 2/4] X event queue mutex

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Thu Oct 2 07:35:05 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:36 +0200, Simon Thum wrote:

> I believe tiagos words are a bit misleading: The mutex makes it possible 
> to block event enqueuing, which is needed to guarantee order of events 
> enqueued on the main thread. If I got it right, the intent is to 
> 'emulate' OsBlockSignals(), though I'm missing that bit.

That sounds fine, but the patch also serializes with dequeuing events.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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