KSyCoca, Thread safety, and Cache invalidation

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Saturday, June 13, 2015 02:04:03 Vishesh Handa wrote:
[...]
> 3. The gui thread on receiving the dbus signal updates its db as well
> as the database of all other threads. This is slightly complex and
> would require locking code similar to (2) since the other threads
> could be in the process of using KSycoca.
[...]
> I'm not quite sure on how to go about this. Do you have any
> suggestions? I'm leaning towards (3), but the locking code is scary.

7. the gui thread listens to dbus and sends a signal to the other threads?
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