Re: GType and GObject Thread save?

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

They are not thread safe "by themselves"

you want to do simething like this:

GMutex *mtx = g_mutex_new();
g_object_set_data(object, "object_mutex", mtx);

before using them. AFAIK g_object_get_data is
reentrant; so as long as each
thread holds a reference to the object
(making sure it will still exist) a thread
may access it like so:

GMutex *mtx = g_object_get_data(object, "object_mutex");
g_mutex_lock(mtx);
/*
 manipulate object
*/
g_mutex_unlock(mtx);


Cheers,
                -Tristan

Pedro Ortega wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to code a little server that builds GObjects
> from XML. So my question is, are GType and GObject thread
> save? I would rather prefer to handle every call in a
> separate thread instead of forking/executing everithing.
>
> Thanks
>
> Piter
>
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