[glib: 1/2] gtask: Document that task name is set by g_task_set_source_tag()




commit c1293acb27da9060dc06cd02ffa9e0592f6da3ee
Author: Philip Withnall <pwithnall endlessos org>
Date:   Thu Mar 3 12:42:28 2022 +0000

    gtask: Document that task name is set by g_task_set_source_tag()
    
    Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall endlessos org>

 gio/gtask.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/gio/gtask.c b/gio/gtask.c
index 2c788367a..ab71d86b4 100644
--- a/gio/gtask.c
+++ b/gio/gtask.c
@@ -981,13 +981,19 @@ g_task_set_return_on_cancel (GTask    *task,
  * @task: the #GTask
  * @source_tag: an opaque pointer indicating the source of this task
  *
- * Sets @task's source tag. You can use this to tag a task return
+ * Sets @task's source tag.
+ *
+ * You can use this to tag a task return
  * value with a particular pointer (usually a pointer to the function
  * doing the tagging) and then later check it using
  * g_task_get_source_tag() (or g_async_result_is_tagged()) in the
  * task's "finish" function, to figure out if the response came from a
  * particular place.
  *
+ * A macro wrapper around this function will automatically set the
+ * task’s name to the string form of @source_tag if it’s not already
+ * set, for convenience.
+ *
  * Since: 2.36
  */
 void
@@ -1014,7 +1020,8 @@ void
  * name of the #GSource used for idle completion of the task.
  *
  * This function may only be called before the @task is first used in a thread
- * other than the one it was constructed in.
+ * other than the one it was constructed in. It is called automatically by
+ * g_task_set_source_tag() if not called already.
  *
  * Since: 2.60
  */


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