Re: gnome_show_url() hangs in threaded programs

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se> writes:
> 
> I have impression that something has got broken in gnome_show_url() and
> related functions (or perhaps, a bug has surfaced that has not been active
> earlier).
> 
> Basically, if you start any thread in your program (you can detach it or
> not, join it or keep it running), gnome_show_url() will hang (tested with
> gnome-libs-1.2.13). I paste below short program demonstrating it. I see two
> possibilities: either this program or gnome-libs contain a bug. The program
> is so simple that there is hardly a place for a bug (prove me wrong).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

gnome-libs is completely unthreadsafe; it doesn't have any locks in it
whatsoever, and tons of global data.

Havoc