Re: Locking again
- From: Pawel Salek <pawsa TheoChem kth se>
- To: Emmanuel <e allaud wanadoo fr>
- Cc: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Locking again
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:19:42 +0200
On 2002.08.08 19:30 Emmanuel wrote:
> The second part seems OK but this : why do we unlock gdk ? This part
> must be called from another thread (not the main one), i.e. a backend
> thread that should not have the gdk lock. So IMHO we should not lock
> gdk in the backend thread, only in the UI func (the idle handle);
> moreover that way we would avoid the unlocking of libmutt that seems
> rather risky.
We need to drop locks to avoid deadlocks when the main thread tries to
lock. (I have some doubts now about the gdk lock).
/pawel
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