On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote:
> La plume l�g�re, � Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:22:34PM -0400, heure d'inpiration,
> Havoc Pennington �crivait en ces mots:
> > No way that I can think of.
> >
> > Havoc
>
> After a fork, the file descriptors stay open. So logically the connection
> to /tmp/.X11-unix/X? should be kept (as well as any current variables).
> Why isn't it therefore possible to have the same X client space for two
> parent processes ?
Because the X-server is not reentrant and requires a separate connection
for each thread/process, unless you use the locking stuff in glib (for
threads).
Cheers!
Conrad
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