Bug 324228 – support threadpool exiting idle threads

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Guys,

I am keen to get this thread pool patch committed to CVS before the GLib
API freeze over Christmas. If it could be reviewed so this would be
possible I would appreciate it. The bug report associated with this
patch is here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324228

A few people have already looked at it and I have comprehensively
updated the tests/threadpool-test app so people can test the new sorting
(which was committed recently) and the idle thread patch.

The reason for this work is explained in the bug and it related to
GnomeVFS.

Thanks.

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Regards,
Martyn