Re: gthreads and file operations

[Nischal Rao <rao nischal gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Thomas Stover <thomas wsinnovations com>wrote:

> 1) you mean glib threads right? (maybe there is a gnome thread?)

yes... i mean glib threads.


> 2) you're going to want to use glib based functions like io channels
> instead of stdio (for regular files at least)
> 3) "don't seem to work" is not enough information for anyone to help you

the files are coming empty. I suspect this is happening because of thread
lock problems...


> 4) you also need a real reason to be using threads in the first place
> since that sort of thing should be discourage unless it truly is
> appropriate. (not that you don't have a real reason, just that many people
> assume they do when it actually is just making the problems worse)

I have to use threads because i need to listen for signals and at the same
do some processing(which is not related to the signals I am listening to...)


> 5) start with reading up on the glib interfaces
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/


I read the glib threads part which is working well except for the file part.
I really have no time to read the entire documentation. I'd rather wait for
somebody who is experienced enough to help me out.


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