Re: Threads

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan van berkom gmail com>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:10:13 +0200, Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy ctech cn ua> 
[...]
> No, all callbacks from GTK widgets run in the lock, so if you will try
> to lock a global mutex in any signal handler you'll get nothing but
> deadlock. In MT app you should protect timeout and idle callbacks only
> (and, of course, the code from another threads that use any GTK/GDK
> function or data).

Sorry, my bad ;-)

If a signal from a GtkWidget is being fired, then we must assume that
somewhere a gtk+ function is currently getting called, and that function
must be protected by the mutex.

Cheers,
                                                -Tristan