Re: Recalculation of timeouts with g_timeout_add

[jcupitt gmail com]

2008/5/16 Mitko Haralanov <mitko qlogic com>:
>  I am not sure why the GTK devs decided that re-calculating the timeout
>  based on the time right after the timeout thread is started is the
>  right thing to do but it seems very wrong to me.

I think the idea is that the timeout might represent a counter. If you
set a 1s timeout, you can expect that after 5 calls (for example)
about 5s will have passed.

>  What if the timeout function takes longer then the timeout itself? You
>  end up with multiple threads running the timeout function at the same
>  time.

No, glib never runs more than one callback at once. They will just
queue up and run when the mainloop becomes idle again.

John