Ok, thanks for the clarification.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 12:53 AM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 1:14 PM,  <db0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 7:02:22 AM UTC+1, Luka Napotnik wrote:
> >>
> >> I forgot to mention that the main goroutine in the test program is
> locked
> >> to a thread as I call runtime.LockOSThread() in init()
> >
> >
> > The Go Spec says "Package initialization—variable initialization and the
> > invocation of init functions—happens in a single goroutine, sequentially,
> > one package at a time. An init function may launch other goroutines,
> which
> > can run concurrently with the initialization code.". The way I understand
> > it, code in init() is not guaranteed to run in the same goroutine as
> main(),
> > so you might be better of calling LockOSThread() from main() (or from
> > whatever goroutine will do the GTK calls).
>
> I think you're right that the spec does not guarantee that the same
> goroutine runs init functions and the main function.  I'll just note
> that in practice it is the same goroutine, for all the implementations
> I know of.
>
> Ian
>
-- 
Greets,
Luka Napotnik

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