Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Issues with creation of new thread

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 1, 2009, at 5:04 AM, harsha gampa wrote:

> In wireshark , gtk/main.c code , ther's a call to gtk_main() where  
> the main thread control is given to gtk.
>
> I need to automate a particular user interaction  i.e. select the  
> RTP/Stream Analysis ... from menu .
>
> For that i have written a small code as follows :
> Just before the call to gtk_main() , i have created a thread

Don't do that.  There is no guarantee that you can safely do that, as  
you've discovered; you're running into errors that are, I suspect,  
caused by the GTK+ event loop running in parallel in more than one  
thread (one of which says so explicitly).