Re: each process only has one main thread ,right ?

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Date	Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:31:18 +1100
From	Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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On 06Feb2013 09:59, Dave Angel <d@davea.name> wrote:
| The only place I now of where we care whether a particular thread in a 
| process is "the main thread" is with a gui, which usually can only sit 
| in a single, "main" thread.  Any gui-related processing done in other 
| threads must be done very carefully.

Single handlers run in the "main thread". So yes, we care if we're
multithreaded.
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

But I have to say, I "non-concur." (Non-concur was a term I learned at
IBM. IBM seemed to be a breeding ground for making up words and
phrases, turning verbs into nouns, etc. "Non-concur" seems to be for
those times when saying "I disagree" just isn't strong enough!)
        - Robert D. Seidman <robert@clark.net>

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