Re: g_main_context_prepare(): main loop already active in another thread

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:03 +0200, Colossus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I red the gtk_threads html page. I put the pair gdk_threads_enter() / 
> gdk_threads_leave() inside a function outside the gtk_main loop as 
> showed below:
>
> void signalhandler (int signum)
> {
>       int status;
>       waitpid ( -1, &status, WNOHANG );
>       gdk_threads_enter();

The *only* thing you are allowed to do in a signal handler is call a
very limited set of C library functions. You certainly can't make
GTK+ calls from a signal handler.

You might want to use the "child watch" functionality of GLib.

Regards,
                                                Owen