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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Re-entrant XtAppMainLoop ??
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.163323.12705@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 7 Dec 90 16:33:23 GMT
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Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <9740115@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM> 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.

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Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

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