Re: Gnome and Multi-threading?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

This is more of a question for gnome-devel-list.  GTK aquires the lock    
when a signal handler is entered, but not io, idle and timeout callbacks.
So all the signal handlers in gnome are safe.  However, there are probably
a number of io, idle and timeout functions that should be aquiring the
lock themselves but are not.  This means that using the gnome libraries
from multiple threads is not guaranteed to work correctly all the time.

James.


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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:

> There was a thread on gtk-list recently about GTK+ and pthreads, and
> someone said that GTK+ is perfectly safe as long as
> gdk_threads_enter()/_leave() are used properly, but that he heard that
> there were additional concerns with Gnome. Is this true? It seems to me
> that if one of my threads has the lock on GTK+, Gnome couldn't do
> anything and therefore would be safe.
> 
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