libX11 and thread-safety
Keith Packard
keithp at keithp.com
Tue Jun 7 18:23:03 PDT 2005
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 17:41 -0600, Brian Paul wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced thread safety problems with libX11?
Yes. In one case, I ended up not calling XInitThreads and using an
external mutex provided by the Gdk library as my application would
otherwise hang constantly.
I'm probably going to replace the Gdk/Xlib support with XCB and see if I
can't get that working.
Xlib's threading support is a disaster.
-keith
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