Re: signal_timeout vs loops (changing label text continuously)

[Gezim Hoxha <gezimetc shaw ca>]

On Wed, 2006-28-06 at 13:40 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Gezim Hoxha <gezimetc shaw ca> wrote:
> > Bob, that helps me implement a thread, which is great, but I also want
> > to understand what threads are and how they work. How do they relate to
> > forks and so on. Is there a book or something I can read to understand
> > this further.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Gezim
> 
> I haven't really read through it all, so I'm not sure how good it is,
> but you might start at wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_%28computer_science%29
> 
> There's a list of references (books and online material) at the end of
> that article as well, if you're interested.  Otherwise, I'm sure you
> can find decent information by searching google for terms like
> threads, threading, multi-threading, tutorial, introduction, etc.

Jonner, thanks, that does help. There's a nice big list of references on
that wikipedia page :)

-Gezim