Re: [gtk-list] Re: threading

[Christopher Blizzard <blizzard AppliedTheory com>]

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, brian kimball wrote:

:Scott Dybiec wrote:
:
:> Yes, most X libraries are not compiled to be thread-safe and even if they were,
:> their supporting libraries such as GTK, Motif, etc are not thread-safe.
:
:Motif 2.1 is supposed to be thread-safe.  How difficult would it be to
:make GTK/GDK/GLIB thread-safe?  It seems like The Right Thing To Do in
:the long run.
:

I agree with this whole-heartedly.  Speaking as someone who is a big user
of threads, this is a must have in a windowing environment.  I was
acutally under the impression that gtk was thread safe...is it?

--Chris

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