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

Sune Vuorela nospam at vuorela.dk
Mon May 31 22:24:08 BST 2010


On 2010-05-31, Sebastian TrĂ¼g <trueg at kde.org> wrote:
> On 05/27/2010 04:23 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> 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).
>
> Since this will most certainly not happen, how about patching this new
> method into stable dbus and have QtDBus use it? It could be two
> patchsets that distributions could apply until 1.4 becomes
> "distribution-worthy".

isn't that basically a libdbus::setThreadSafety(bool b); api addition,
defaulting to false?

for one reason or another, I kind of feel that it is bad api ...

/Sune





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