Re: Idle Function Not Getting Called

[Marshall Lake <mlake mlake net>]

> > I've taken some time to check the mutex and locks/unlocks between the 
> > secondary thread and the idle function.  All appear as it should. The 
> > locks/unlocks are being applied in an orderly fashion and as they 
> > should be, and there are no recursive locks.  The program flows as it 
> > should.
> >
> > I still feel my problem has something to do with the secondary thread 
> > and idle function working together but at this point I'm not sure what 
> > to check next.

> I am only familiar with glib on unix-like systems, where GMutex/GThread/ 
> GCond are thin wrappers for their pthread counterparts.  g_idle_add() is 
> implemented differently in windows as well, with a windows event object 
> rather than a unix pipe.
>
> If you are using windows, possibly the contortions necessary to fit 
> windows threads into a pthread-type model is causing the difficulty.

I'm using only Linux.

> I assume you have made the main loop thread-safe by calling 
> g_thread_init()?

The following are the first few lines of my main() ...

    openlog ("gtknsbclient", LOG_NDELAY, LOG_USER);
    if (!g_thread_supported ())
        g_thread_init (NULL);
    gdk_threads_init ();
    gdk_threads_enter ();

    /* initialize GTK interface */
    gtk_init (&argc, &argv);


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