Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!pds
From: pds@quintus (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: destruction/freeing of XIDs
Message-ID: <899@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 19:45:59 GMT
Sender: news@quintus.UUCP
Reply-To: pds@quintus (Peter Schachte)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In the Xlib manual, it states that once one installs a pixmap in a GC,
one may free the pixmap, and that as long as the pixmap is needed by any
object (e.g., a GC), it will not be deallocated.  Thus the question:
how far does this go?  I my process creates a pixmap and installs it as
a property of a window, and another process finds that pixmap's XID and
tries to free it, what happens?  Do I have to worry about my resources
being destroyed behind my back?
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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