Thread-safety issue in KConfig / KStandardDirs ?

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:47:46AM -0300, Sandro Andrade wrote:
> I'm facing again another possibly thread-safety issue in KConfig.
> Since KConfig is not thread-safe and probably non-const methods are
> being called from different threads, should I lock threads properly or
> KConfig could somehow prevent this ?
> 
making kconfig's map accessors thread-safe would be relatively expensive
for rather little gain in the general case, so i would say you need to
do locking from the outside. what exactly would be your use case? the
backtrace may just indicate a bug ...