2008/5/16 Mitko Haralanov <
mitko@...>:
> I am not sure why the GTK devs decided that re-calculating the timeout
> based on the time right after the timeout thread is started is the
> right thing to do but it seems very wrong to me.
I think the idea is that the timeout might represent a counter. If you
set a 1s timeout, you can expect that after 5 calls (for example)
about 5s will have passed.
> What if the timeout function takes longer then the timeout itself? You
> end up with multiple threads running the timeout function at the same
> time.
No, glib never runs more than one callback at once. They will just
queue up and run when the mainloop becomes idle again.
John
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