Name: krT82822 Date: 09/16/99


It would be very helpful to be able to lock the AWT monitor
as per the lock() method in the DrawingSurfaceInfo classes
outwith the scope of a drawing surface.

On X11 platforms, any operations that might occur using the
X protocol but not via a drawing surface can result in
breakdowns in the X11 protocol ( async reply problems )
which will terminally hang the application. This is bad.

The new native AWT API also suffers from this omission and
cannot be robustly used in all cases.

The SGI JDK-1.1.6 release featured two native methods called
awt_lock_enter() and awt_lock_exit() which basically locked
the AWT monitor ensuring that no AWT calls were issued when
you might be doing something with X. Something similar as a
standard with the JDK and accessible via the JNI would be
fabulous.
(Review ID: 95084)
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