Re: [Gimp-developer] Simultaneous Multiprocessing and Multithreading in GIMP

[Ahmad Nouralizadeh <ahmad mlists gmail com>]

Hi Liam,
Thanks for the answer.

On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 16:25, Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 15:30 +0330, Ahmad Nouralizadeh via gimp-
> developer-list wrote:
> >  AFAIK, using fork
> > and multithreading is not recommended (e.g., look at the second
> > answer here, Is it safe to fork from within a thread?
>
> It's “not recommended” in the same way that using a knife to cut your
> meat is not recommended: you could hurt yourself.
>
> As you can see from that stackoverflow question, there can be problems
> if you don't call exec() right away in the child process after a
> fork(). Which GIMP does, avoiding the problems.
>
> This is why GIMP does not deadlock when you run a plugin.
>
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