Re: GLib Eventing

[Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net>]

Brian Clow wrote:
> I'm developing a cross platform application using Glib to provide
> portability.  I've made heavy use of Windows events (i.e. CreateEvent)
> in the past - they allow a thread to sleep indefinitely until one of a
> group of events is signaled by another thread.  What the best way to do
> something similar using Glib?  
>
> [...]
>
> It seems GAsyncQueue is the right structure for this purpose - just want
> to ensure there's no structures I'm overlooking, or nothing about the
> GAsyncQueue which makes it unsuitable for this purpose....

AFAIK using GAsyncQueue for generic synchronization between different
threads (usually the main/GUI thread and working thread) is kind of
standard.

Paul