Re: next round: glib thread safety proposal

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote:
> I have a function, that uses a per thread memeory for certain objects in a
> list.
> 
> g_thread_specific list;
> 
> do_it( gpointer object ) 
> {
>   GList *the_list = g_thread_specific_get(list);
>   g_list_prepend(the_list, object);
> }
> 
> How can the thread know about its list other than that? (Without the list
> being an agrument, that is)

I guess I never design programs like that.  :)

I think we will have to agree to disagree.  Thread-specific data just
seems like a hack to me.  It implies that a thread calls functions
which don't know about thread-specific data inherently (through
args or some other means) -- but which in turn need to know about
thread-specific data.  Maybe that's applicable in third-party libs or
something.

But if people will use it, put it in there...

	Jeff