Re: zombie GTK thread

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

kornelix wrote:
[...]
> The dialog box is left running after the thread exits, and it works OK.
> The thread that created it is long gone but the dialog response 
> functions still work.
> What thread are they running in?

Gdk has a connection with the X server and adds the
file desctiptor to the poll() in the main loop.

When events are delivered to GTK+, poll() returns (deep inside
gtk_main()) and the event is sent to the appropriate widget.

All events are delivered in the main thread.

Cheers,
                          -Tristan

Note: threads are only threads of execution; callbacks and data
do not belong to a thread.