Review Request: Workaround for non-thread-safety of QDBusConnection

[Thiago Macieira]

Note that there is a fix for the issue.

I will apply it to libdbus-1. I recommend all distributions upgrade to D-Bus 
1.4.0 as soon as it's out (there's no schedule for it).

Em Quinta-feira 27 Maio 2010, às 15:55:33, Sebastian Trueg escreveu:
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> Review request for kdelibs.
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> Summary
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> As many of us experienced already QDBusConnection is not thread-safe. As
> you can see in Qt bug 7475
> (http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-7475) this is not Qt's fault
> but an issue in libdbus which has been reported a rather long time ago
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17754). In Nepomuk we work
> around this problem using a pool of connections, one for each thread. This
> is no perfect solution but at least we get no more crashes. The same
> applies to KSycoca, too. It is used in multi-threading situations at least
> in Dolphin. Thus, this patch moves the DBusConnectionPool to kdecore,
> making it privately available to all kdelibs components.
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> Diffs
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>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/util/dbusconnectionpool.cpp PRE-CREATION
>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/CMakeLists.txt 1130392
>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/sycoca/ksycoca.cpp 1130392
>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/util/dbusconnectionpool.h PRE-CREATION
>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/nepomuk/core/CMakeLists.txt 1130392
>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/nepomuk/core/dbusconnectionpool.h 1130392
>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/nepomuk/core/dbusconnectionpool.cpp 1130392
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4166/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Sebastian

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