Re: Weird problems: C library programs crashing in combination with GTK UI

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:18 +1100, Michael Lamothe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alternatively, you can use the new gdk_threads_add_timeout() available
> in GTK 2.12.  It's a GDK thread safe drop-in-replacement for
> g_timeout_add().

g_timeout_add() is thread safe provided that, if any GDK/GTK+ functions
are called in the callback, the GDK lock is acquired with
gdk_threads_enter() before those calls are made.
gtk_threads_add_timeout() avoids lock contention within the callback (it
is entered with the lock already held), but I don't think that was the
OP's problem.

Chris