Re: forcing immediate redraw on widget

[Gus Koppel <gtk spamkiller bytechase cx>]

Harring Figueiredo wrote:

> > I didn't expect + know that printf () could cause a hardware
> > interrupt in which GTK+ could be interested, since it's neither
> > related to GTK+ / GDK nor even an X server itself. Which interrupt
> > do you have in mind?
>
>   Hardware interrupt -- You are right though - GDK and X server does
>   not care abou t that interrupt, but the process will 'likely' be
>   preempted in wich case the X server has enough time to gather events
>   for that particular aplication(mouse movement, etc.)

Which hardware interrupt would be triggered by a printf () call?