Re: [gtk-list] multithreaded app

["G. Sumner Hayes" <sumner collegium adsl net cmu edu>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 1997 at 11:09:15PM -0500, Andrew Veliath wrote:
> Does anyone use pthreads (LinuxThreads) and X11/Gtk with glibc 2 and
> thread-safe compiled X11?

Yes.

> 
> I'm hoping that I'll be able to do this for my app rewrite which has a
> pipeline threaded data pump, with RedHat Linux 5 (GUI from main thread
> only).

You don't even need reetrant xlib if you're only doing GUI from one
thread.  It works just fine.  Reetrant xlib is needed if you do GUI from
multiple threads.  Even then, you'd need gtk to be reetrant.

-Sumner

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