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[gtk-list] Re: Strange quirk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Garzik)
Wed Nov 4 13:57:05 1998
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:13:40 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: jgarzik@pobox.com
In-Reply-To: <199811041740.KAA13122@ymir.atd.ucar.edu> from "Rich Neitzel" at Nov 4, 98 10:40:59 am
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Resent-From: gtk-list@redhat.com
Rich Neitzel wrote:
>
> I'm seeing a strange quirk in behavior. The setup is:
>
> gtk 1.0.6
> gtk-- 0.9.20 Both compiled with -D_REENTRANT -O2.
>
> RedHat 5.1
>
> The program needs to input data. If this is done via gdk_input_add(),
> everything works fine. However, if the input is done in a separate
> thread, any entry based object will fail in g_mem_chunk_alloc() as
> soon as a key is pressed.
Can you give more detail as to what "program needs to input data" and
"if input is done in a separate thread" really mean?
What exactly is the thread doing?
Does it make any g_*, gdk_*, or gtk_* calls?
If so, what functions does the thread call?
Was Glib compiled with _REENTRANT also?
Jeff
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