[racket] XNextEvent blocking 'read' in other thread?

Hi,

I don't know if this issue is due to me, Racket, Xlib FFI or Xlib in
itself, but I'm struggling with it. Hopefully someone knows.

In a multi-threaded application using Jon's Xlib FFI (
https://github.com/kazzmir/x11-racket ), I'm using one thread for
processing X events with XNextEvent, which is a blocking call (apparently
on a socket).
I have another thread that listens to a tcp port, and does not need to do
any X call.

The problem is that the second thread blocks on 'read' even if there is
something in the queue to read, unless some X event unblocks XNextEvent, in
which case both threads run, until there is no X event left (and XNextEvent
blocks again).

I have called XInitThreads prior to any other X call to enable threads (and
the return values says it's ok).

Any idea anyone?

Thanks,
Laurent
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