Re: Gtk2+ and thread safety

[Nicholas Allen - Sun Ireland - Software Engineer <nicholas allen ireland sun com>]

Hi Owen,

Thanks again! I applied the fix you suggested myself and this did indeed 
seem to fix it. I haven't noticed any threading problems yet with our 
implementation.

Owen Taylor wrote:

> Nicholas Allen - Sun Ireland - Software Engineer <nicholas allen ireland sun com> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Hi Owen,
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback but we are calling gdk_threads_init just after
> > g_threads_init so I don't think this is the problem.
> >    
>
> Guess, I didn't read your mail closely enough. Sorry.
>
> I think I see a possible problem; looks like gdk/gdkwindow.c/gdk_window_update_idle()
> is missing GDK_THREADS_ENTER/GDK_THREADS_LEAVE() guards.
>
> If fixing that doesn't help, the best approach is to make as small of
> a test case as you possibly can.
>
> Since the problem with update processing is there, there may well be others;
> clearly nobody has tested threading with GTK+-2.0 yet. (The general
> outline of threading hasn't changed significantly, so any problems
> should be trivial.)
>
> Regards,
>                                        Owen
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