Re: Idle Function Not Getting Called

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:00:11 -0400 (EDT)
Marshall Lake <mlake mlake net> wrote:
[...]
Me:
> > The important point in looking at out-of-order locking (or other
> > locking issues) is that the idle handler runs in the thread in
> > which the main program loop runs, not the thread which called
> > g_idle_add()/ g_idle_add_full(), and that it runs at a time not of
> > that calling thread's choosing.
>
> I don't quite understand this.  Don't all idle functions run in the
> main program loop thread?

Yes.

Chris