Re: Multhithreading internals in GTK+

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:24 AM,  <jcupitt gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Vish,
>
> 2009/12/2 Vishwanath Venkatesan <venkates cs columbia edu>:
>> I am trying to understand the  internals of threading in GTK+-2.0. From my
>> understanding there are threads generated with GTK+ functions (ex. Opening a
>> file-dialog) even without explicit  threading.
>
> That's not correct. Gtk+ is a single-threaded system with an event loop.

That's not true for things that involve GFS. The file dialog does
indeed create its own threads, mostly because of the implementation of
GFS.

Other than that, what John said is true.