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From: meo@Dixie.Com (Miles ONeal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Re-entrant XtAppMainLoop ??
Message-ID: <5245@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Date: 8 Dec 90 05:29:00 GMT
Organization: Systems & Software Solutions, Inc.
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kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	) writes:
|jww@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Jim Wichelman) writes:
|>Is it kosher to call the R4 version of XtMainLoop or the newer
|>XtAppMainLoop from a callback?  I believe the R2 version of XtMainLoop was
|>non-reentrant.
|Six months ago I asked about toolkit reentrancy in general.  MIT & Co.
|said that Xlib, Xt, and Xaw are not reentrant, and they have no plans
|for it to become so until after R5.  OSF said Motif probably isn't; no 
|statement about when it might be.

Try it and see. We got away with it under R3, but it was a pain to
get it working. Lots of lockups along the way...

-Miles