[pygtk] Simple threading prevents quitting

[Tobias Weber]

On 22.02.2010, at 16:18, Tobias Weber wrote:

> This changes nothing when using X11, but on a Quartz build gtk.main_quit() no longer exits the process, only SIGKILL does!

BTW this happened on both 10.5 with MacPorts and 10.6 with my own build

I found another mention of the problem, and a proposed fix by commenting out close(real_source->fds[0]):

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4A48FA0E.3080100%40eversholt.net&forum_name=gramps-devel

What do you think? It is confirmed by a process sample I took:

891 Thread_13713   DispatchQueue_1: com.apple.main-thread  (serial)
  891 start
	891 Py_Main
	  891 PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags
		891 PyRun_FileExFlags
		  891 Py_CompileString
			891 PyEval_EvalCode
			  891 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
				891 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
				  891 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
					891 _wrap_gtk_main
					  891 g_source_destroy
						891 g_source_destroy_internal
						  891 g_source_unref_internal
							891 pygtk_main_watch_finalize
							  891 close$UNIX2003
891 Thread_13714   DispatchQueue_2: com.apple.libdispatch-manager  (serial)
  891 start_wqthread
	891 _pthread_wqthread
	  891 _dispatch_worker_thread2
		891 _dispatch_queue_invoke
		  891 _dispatch_mgr_invoke
			891 kevent
891 Thread_13719
  891 thread_start
	891 _pthread_start
	  891 select_thread_func
		891 g_poll
		  891 select$DARWIN_EXTSN

I did not find anything on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=pygtk