Re: ref/unref in GObjects thread safe?

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:09:40 +0200
Aleksander Morgado <gtk-list aleksander es> wrote:
> Are g_object_ref() and g_object_unref() completely thread-safe?
> 
> Cheers,
> -Aleksander

This states that manipulation of the reference count with
g_object_ref() and go_object_unref() is thread-safe as from glib-2.8:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/gobject-memory.html#gobject-memory-refcount

Although the reference count is thread safe, for concurrent access to
the data members of the same GObject object in different threads, you
would usually need to do your own locking.

Chris