Re: Proper use of g_main_context_iteration

[David King <amigadave amigadave com>]

Hi

On 2015-08-11 20:27, Jacques Pelletier <jpelletier ieee org> wrote:
> I'm using a separate thread for accepting clients on a socket server.
> In this thread, the g_main_context_iteration is called to update the GUI.
>
> Do I need to use g_main_context_acquire and/or g_main_context_release?
>
> Apart from the code and the reference manuals, there's not much infos
> about the proper use of these functions.
> What are these for? Where can I get a more detailled description of
> these functions?

There is a useful section of the GNOME programming guidelines on main 
contexts:

https://developer.gnome.org/programming-guidelines/stable/main-contexts.html

Philip Withnall deserves the credit for writing this. Thanks Philip!

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