On 08 Jan 2001, Danny Backx spake: > The last time I checked, the XFree distributions weren't compiled > for thread-safety. (This is a while ago.) Things may have changed. xc/config/cf/Imakefile has referenced Threads.tmpl for ages (at least since XFree86-3.3), and that does a threadsafe build. (Whether the XFree86 binary distributions override this I don't know, but I'd be *very* surprised if they did.) -- `Picture someone frothing at the mouth, waving a cleaver, and drawing down death, destruction, fire, flood, pestilence, rape and looting over SysV. This is perfectly normal reaction.' --- Andrew Vendryes