Re: Multhithreading internals in GTK+

[jcupitt gmail com]

2009/12/9 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?

It could be something as simple as loading the icon for the dialog box
I guess. Try putting a breakpoint on g_thread_create() or
g_thread_create_full() and looking at the stack.

Anyway, it won't be anything important, GTK does not directly use threads.

John