Thread-safety changes to signal marshalling
- From: Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>
- To: gtk-perl-list gnome org
- Subject: Thread-safety changes to signal marshalling
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:51:04 +0100
I just committed¹ a fix to Glib that is supposed to make Glib gracefully
handle signal invocation from foreign threads. The long story is at
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620099>, the short story is
in the NEWS file:
When a signal handler is invoked from a foreign thread without
associated Perl interpreter, hand the marshalling over to the main loop
which in turn later wakes up the main thread and lets it handle the
request. Since this approach is experimental, there is debug print for
now whenever it is used:
*** GPerl asked to invoke callback from a foreign thread;
handing it over to the main loop
Please test this change extensively. The programs that are most likely
affected are those using GStreamer, but maybe also those using gio.
¹
<http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib/commit/?id=6f1bc1a56e4c7c87d44caca1001cd50357f7a603>
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