Comment 4 for bug 1194384
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| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote Re: Event callbacks are not single-thread-safe | #4 |
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(Get the code!)
I'm talking about existing apps written for existing toolkits. GTK for example.
It is a very important issue. If you allow multiple threads to run concurrently without any locking, operating on the same data, they will race. Hence bugs.