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+2002-12-23  Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com>
+
+	* glib/Thread.cs: Add a class for thread awareness
+	* gdk/Threads.cs: ditto
+
 2002-12-22  Kristian Rietveld  <kris@gtk.org>
 
 	* sources/Gnome.metadata: add out param rules for a bunch of Canvas
diff --git a/gdk/Threads.cs b/gdk/Threads.cs
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+// Threads.cs - thread awareness
+//
+// Author: Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com>
+//
+// (c) 2002 Alp Toker
+
+namespace Gdk
+{
+	using System;
+	using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
+	public class Threads
+	{
+		[DllImport("gdk-x11-2.0")]
+		static extern void gdk_threads_init ();
+
+		public static void Init ()
+		{
+			gdk_threads_init ();
+		}
+
+		[DllImport("gdk-x11-2.0")]
+		static extern void gdk_threads_enter ();
+
+		public static void Enter ()
+		{
+			gdk_threads_enter ();
+		}
+
+		[DllImport("gdk-x11-2.0")]
+		static extern void gdk_threads_leave ();
+
+		public static void Leave ()
+		{
+			gdk_threads_leave ();
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/glib/Thread.cs b/glib/Thread.cs
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+// Thread.cs - thread awareness
+//
+// Author: Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com>
+//
+// (c) 2002 Alp Toker
+
+namespace GLib
+{
+	using System;
+	using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
+	public class Thread
+	{
+		[DllImport("gthread-2.0")]
+		static extern void g_thread_init (IntPtr i);
+
+		public static void Init ()
+		{
+			g_thread_init (IntPtr.Zero);
+		}
+	}
+}