Re: gtk+ doesn't work with pthreads

[Mike Oliphant <oliphant ling ed ac uk>]

On Mon, 31 May 1999, Emmanuel DELOGET wrote: 

> 	Since X is not thread-safe, gtk is not too. In order to avoid
> 	the classic 'x io erro', you should make sure that only *one*
> 	thread manage the gui a time (do just like you want - mutexes,
> 	of simply a gui thread...). 

I am the author of the application in question (Grip). Only one thread
does any accessing of the gui. The X i/o problem seems to be very system
dpendant, and fewer people seem to have it all the time. libc5 systems
tend to be more prone


Mike