info on futexes:

http://ds9a.nl/futex-manpages/

I'm not real familiar with them.

Alex

--- Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] emmanuel ALLAUD wrote:
> 
> > This is perhaps a dumb idea, but could the futexes
> > help here? I don't know if they have equivalent on
> > other OSes than Linux.
> > Bye
> > Manu
> 
>    I don't see how they help.  The problem is that the X-server
> is in a situation where it has to wait for something to complete
> before it can continue, and it knows that it will take a long time 
> before that something will complete.   All it can do now is burn the
> CPU during that time.
> 
>    I'm assuming futexes are some interprocess mutex mechanism?
> If so, I don't see how this helps.
> 
> 
>                       Mark.
> 
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