Re: threads and Sockets

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw ITS TUDelft NL>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:19:38PM +0200, G Hasse wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Oliver Buecker wrote:
>
> > Hello alltogether,
> > - is it possible that someone kann give me an example how
> >     make threads with gtk????
>
> Basicaly you don't want to do threads in a UI application.

Why not? GTK+ is thread safe. See question 5.2 in the GTK+ FAQ at
http://www.gtk.org/faq/ .

> If you want to do many things "at the same time" do them
> in separate servers and create sockets between them.
> Then you listen on the socket with
>
> gdk_input_add( s, GDK_INPUT_READ, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(file_function),
> &cmdinfo );
>
> To read from the socket when data is available.

That's another way to do it, yes. But standard POSIX threads works as
well.


Erik

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