Re: [Gnash-dev] Pango thread-safety/workaround?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 01:12:49PM -0500, Matthias Gehre wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have a question regarding thread-safe us of pango in gnash.
> As one of the developers of pango has confirmed, pango
> cannot be used safely from different threads and they have no plans
> to fix that.
> (See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2011-May/msg00015.html)
> 
> But as the browser, for example firefox, may already use pango
> for its own text drawing, how do you make sure that
> gnash does not use pango at the same time?

Currently Gnash and the browser are two distinct processes,
so there's no such problem.

> I know that browsers start to use process separation, and that the problem 
> does
> not exist there, but this is only supported recently and can also be
> turned off by the user.

Great, so as gnash moves in-process, browsers move off...

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