Doccumetation issue: "The Service Thread" Does it exist?

[Vincent Béron]

Robert North a écrit:
> This concerns the documentation on thw www.winehq.com website, if it's
> out of date, then this post may be irrelevant.
> 
> In the "Wine Developer's Guide"
> In Section 8.1.4, "The Service thread"
> 
> Says there exists a service thread, that is implemented in:
>      scheduler/services.c.
> It also says this thread is used to support the X11 driver's event loop.
> 
> 
> Firstly, I cannot find the "scheduler/services.c" file.
> 
> Secondly from my reading of the x11drv code, the X11 event loop is
> serviced for every call of to X11DRV_MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx,
> which is inturn called by MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx, and GetMessage.
> Therefore, whichever thread is active will service the X11 event queue.
> 
> It also appears, because each thread has it's own XDisplay object that
> messages created by a X11 window will only be picked up in the thread 
> that created the window.
> 
> Am I correct, or have I missed something fundamental?
> 
> Bye
>     -Rob.
> 
> 
> 

 From http://cvs.winehq.org/cvsweb/wine/scheduler/Attic/services.c:
Revision 1.14
FILE REMOVED
Removed service thread support.

Guess it answer why you can't find scheduler/services.c.

Somebody else than me can probably tell you why, or what replaced it.

Vincent