Re: [gtk-list] Re: threading

[Elliot Lee <sopwith cuc edu>]

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Christopher Blizzard wrote:

> 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?

Nope, and it would break a lot of stuff to make it thread-safe in the
"correct" manner. Maybe for Gtk 2.0, who knows.

<lame excuse>You only have one connection to the X server anyways, so why
try to have more than one process feeding that connection?</lame excuse>

Gtk doesn't preclude using threads - it's just that you need to make sure
that only one thread at a time is accessing Gtk stuff.

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