Re: GNU-Pth and GLIB

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi Dan,

> First off, if you build pth with "--enable-syscall-hard" and use the
> pthreads-compatibility library, everything just works without any
> pth-specific code anywhere. So I think we don't need explicit glib pth
> support (unless there are OSes we support that have neither pthreads
> nor syscall(2)?)

Exactly.

> > Basically I doubt it would be a good idea. Using threads in GLib/GTK
> > applications will mostly occur, because the taks at hand can't be solved
> > easily with the main loop.
> 
> Yes and no. It will occur because the programmer decided he wanted to
> use threads. Maybe he didn't want to write things out the async way.
> Maybe he had to use a library that does blocking IO but doesn't have
> async interfaces. So you have one thread do file/network IO, and
> another doing GUI. Pth will work just fine in that case.

I see. So as always, there is not one truth ;-)

Bye,
Sebastian
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