Re: gobject thread safety

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 12:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Tim, congratulations to the new job. 
> Does that mean you get paid now to review gobject patches ? 
> That would be awesome :-)
> 
> I'd like to make one last attempt to get some motion on the 
> gobject thread safety bugs,
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65041
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64764
> 
> Can you remind me what you think is wrong with the patch
> for 65041 ? It does not introduce new api and simply uses
> GOnce for the get_type functions inside gobject. I have 
> attached it below. Also, if you could elaborate a little
> more on why you think the patch for 64764 is "a joke",
> that might help to move things forward... 

It would also be extremely sweet to get the atomic refcount patches in:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166020

Whomever this is blocking on, please please try to move it forward.

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