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Date: Mon,  4 Feb 2008 13:19:14 -0700
From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] drawterm crash log
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a cursory look through the code indicates that there may indeed be a
bug in the screen management between writing the bits on a bitmap and
the bitmap to the screen. i have different code for osx which is
rearranged to avoid creating a separate thread for handling the
display, but that code is only for p9p and can't be dropped in
drawterm without a bit of work. with that code we can at least be sure
that we have no races and, chance is, you won't get a crash with it.

of course, it's still better to rewrite the whole osx gui code
directly in Cocoa, which may happen sooner or later :)