Re: Multi-threaded light-server example

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

Let's start the other way round: What is the actual problem you are
trying to solve?

> After instrumenting my code and printing out the thread ids I don't
> believe either of these solutions are correct. I knew it wouldn't be
> as simple as that (I was crossing my fingers GMainContext did some
> magic). Can anyone point me to a reference to understand
> g_main_context_push_thread_default better?
>
> I've been reading these, but applying them to this example code has
> been confusing:
> https://tecnocode.co.uk/2014/03/27/what-is-gmaincontext/
> http://gnome.soup.io/post/420776985/Philip-Withnall-Ensuring-function
> s-are-called-in
>
> Any additional help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Nick Deubert <ndeubert gmail com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Nick Deubert <ndeubert gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Jens Georg <mail jensge org>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Everything! GUPnP-related has to be created in the worker
> > > > thread after
> > > > g_main_context_push_thread_default.
> > > >
> > > > Otherwise half of your call-backs end up in main thread.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the quick reply. Ok then is the attached code (which
> > > seems
> > > to work) correct?
> > > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Or I suppose do I even need the main loop in main()? Is it as
> > simple
> > as just creating a GMainContext and pushing it before doing
> > anything
> > else? Would the attached code be safe?
> > Thanks.