Is this expected behavior?

SDL Development
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I noticed something weird today. When you pass SDL_INIT_TIMER to
SDL_Init(…) three processes are created… I did not notice earlier
because they are always on the bottom of the listing in ‘top’. When I
take out the SDL_INIT_TIMER only a single process is created. I suppose
timers are seperate threads but should there really be several
processes?? This may just be my ignorance (I give it a 90% chance) but
this seems peculiar.

– David Snopek

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I noticed something weird today. When you pass SDL_INIT_TIMER to
SDL_Init(…) three processes are created…

I think this is normal. And yeah, they’re threads. Same thing happens
when you start playing with SDL_Mixer. :slight_smile:

-bill!
(definitely not technical enough to understand this, though :wink: )