Re: Multiple timeouts

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

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:49:43 +0000, marcodev comcast net
<marcodev comcast net> wrote:
> I have a section of code that invokes g_timeout_add() to begin a data capture routine. The code can be 
> invoked several times but the data collection function remains the same (the argument to the timeout holds 
> the details of the data that needs to be collected):
>
> TIMEOUT = g_timeout_add (rate, CAPTURE_DATA, DVAR);
>
> Will the gtk_main loop manage the calls to CAPTURE_DATA so the timeouts don't overlap? or should this be 
> safer done with threads and mutexes?

There will be no management to prevent the timeouts from overlapping,
simply by virtue that the timeouts are in the same thread of execution,
they cannot overlap.

Cheers,
                                 -Tristan