Re: Fun with multithreaded gnome application

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

Look up semaphores in the docs ... sorry, lots of E-mail to respond to ... :-P

Adam Cherrett wrote:

> From reading various posts on similar situations, this is the way I intend
> to solve the problem:
>
> 1. Open a pipe to communicate between the two threads
> 2. Send a 'message' with occasional increments in the progress gauge
>    (actually a pointer to some mutex-protected shared memory to save
>     time)
> 3. Wake up the main thread whenever a message arrives and act on it.
>
> Firstly, does this sound like a sane solution?
>
> Secondly, how do I arrange for the gtk main loop to watch the pipe and run a
> callback function whenever something arrives?