Re: gnome-vfs usage of GConf vs threads

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:37:26AM -0500, Alexander Larsson wrote: 
> > If we instantiate a separate GConfClient and lock about its usage, will at 
> > least the gconf part be threadsafe?
> 
> Nah, I doubt it. Certainly you'd have to audit it to see.
> 
> Could you just create a variable for the proxy, and keep it updated
> out of the main thread, and the http backend just reads the variable?
> (Locking the variable of course so you don't read a half-updated proxy
> string.)

I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean adding stuff to the glib 
mainloop that sets the variable? I'm not sure a vfs module can rely on the 
glib mainloop being availible like that. Non-mainloop based apps may use 
gnome-vfs.

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