[Gtk-sharp-list] Creating critical section for unhandled exception handler

[Christopher David Howie]

On 5/20/2010 9:16 PM, Styne wrote:
> I'm confident that I have proven:
> 1) A thread that enters the critical section will block until the dialog is
> closed (Dialog.Run() blocks, plus the counter doesn't decrement until the
> dialog is closed)
> 2) There are multiple threads in the same critical section at the same time
> (multiple dialogs, plus counter > 1)
> 3) It is the same thread that is re-entering the critical section without
> ever leaving it (same ManagedThreadId which is guaranteed to be unique for
> each thread)
> 
> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

This is probably the main thread, if you are responding to a Gtk# event,
since these events are dispatched on the main thread.  When you show the
dialog, the Run() call will indeed block, but the main loop will be
re-entered on the same thread so that events in the dialog can be processed.

So if some event occurs multiple times, the same event that triggers the
code you are running to show the dialog, then that code will be
re-entered recursively.

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