Re: Displaying live video -- how to notify main loop from another thread?

[Marek Peca]

> > Please, tell me: is it needed to create threads using GNUstep thread 
> > API, or may I use ordinary glibc pthreads? The whole application is 
> > written in plain C, requiring about 5 threads (2 camera threads, slower 
> > computation, disk file output, GUI) with different priorities, 
> > including a setting of SCHED_FIFO etc. I would really like to avoid 
> > GNUstep API for threads and use plain POSIX threads and to use GNUstep 
> > only for the GUI.
>
>
> It is not required, however GNUstep does need to know that the app is 
> multithreaded.  In a single-threaded app, it doesn't bother locking some 
> things internally.  The simplest thing to do is start an NSThread that 
> exits immediately when your app launches.  This will ensure that 
> anything that needs to be in multithreaded mode is.


Excellent, this is what I wanted to hear.


Many thanks,
Marek