Re: Multhithreading internals in GTK+

[Vishwanath Venkatesan <venkates cs columbia edu>]

I did see this behavior when I instrumented Gedit with PIN. Whenever  
there is a dialog box spawned, there are thread spawned. The behavior  
is random, and moreover I don't think I used any GFS. It was on a VM  
running Ubuntu.

Any intuitions why this is happening?

Vish

On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Paul Davis wrote:

> 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.