Re: [Gnash-dev] [PATCH] Call XInitThreads() in GtkGui::init() for the plug-in

[Bastiaan Jacques]

I gave this patch a spin and it turned out to segfault on my machine.
According to GTK docs, thread initialization should be done before
gtk_init(), so that may point to the cause.

Bastiaan

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Bastiaan Jacques wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
>
> > This patch initializes X threading support. I noticed Xv was using 
> > XLockDisplay() and XUnlockDisplay() but it never initialized them.
>
> I suspect those calls to X{,Un}LockDisplay() are not actually needed
> since there's a simply XSync in the Xv code anyway.
>
> > Besides, I also got problems with the OGL renderer and the plug-ins.
>
> So this means there is threaded access to the graphics hardware inside
> the OpenGL renderer? Presumably this is in the "bitmap_info" system.
> Ideally I think the renderer should not be multithreaded at all, but we
> are probably stuck with it for now. Let's get this patch checked in.
>
> Bastiaan
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