Re: Using GAllocator in a multi-threaded environment

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:54, Beni Serfaty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was happily using GQueue which seemed to be doing it's job right. When
> I applied another GQueue running from a different thread, I started
> getting sometime segmentation fault from the function _g_list_alloc - 
> (In the line 	  current_allocator->free_lists->data = list->next; )
> 
> I didn't use GAllocator with any of the GQueue (actually, didn't use
> this functionality at all). I am using GLib 2.0
> 
> I would like to know:
> How do one work with GQueue in a multi-threaded environment: 
> (I want to use several GQueues or GLists, with different GAllocators,
> running in a multi-threaded environment). Since the current allocator is
> static in the lib code, is it even possible without locking? Is there
> some way to use a non-static allocator?

GQueue should be doing the locking for you, and I believe it does.
My *guess* (not discounting the possibility of a GLib bug, but doubting
it) is that something else is buggy elsewhere in your program.

Regards,
                                            Owen