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On December 14, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On December 14, 2008, Peter Wang wrote:
> > On 2008-12-14, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 14-Dec-08, at 8:13 PM, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > > ex_monitorinfo hangs for me. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Do you have xinerama enabled in xorg.conf?
> > > I had the sane problem (in a VM, admittedly), which was fixed when I
> > > enabled xinerama (I didn't realise it was disabled at first).
> > > Annoyingly enough though, the program did run properly in gdb... not
> > > sure what went on there.
> >
> > I solved (I think) the problem by adding locks around the Xinerama
> > calls, so there was probably some race condition.
>
> How? Its not like the function that creates the connection and then queries
> the extensions is running in multiple threads, it makes no sense to me. To
> me, that sounds like broken X. A single thread, making regular calls into X
> should not lock up. Its the code that sets up the X stuff for peats sake,
> nothing has a pointer to any of it yet.
Ok, so its not locking up in the initial setup.. I'm tired.. Anyhow, I still
don't see why its locking up when querying xinerama info later on, what could
possibly cause it to lock up in that example?
> > Peter
> >
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