Re: Question about threads

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mike Dreibelbis <maddoc en com> writes: 
> However when I comment out the three statements which are direcly
> related to threads:
>
> g_thread_init(NULL); 
> gdk_threads_enter();
> gdk_threads_leave();
>
> the program compiles and runs fine on the sparcserver. So I guess
> I'm wondering if these statements are needed at all. Will something
> evil happen that I'm not running into without them?  

The hang is a deadlock, no doubt. By removing these lines you remove
all locking, so don't get a deadlock, but you do get a total lack of
locking. Which will normally lead to something evil, yes. ;-)

If the above doesn't make any sense to you, you may want to read up on
threads a bit more.

Havoc