Re: Thread safety of ostree_repo_pull_with_options

[Anton Gerasimov <anton advancedtelematic com>]

To those who may be interested: creating and setting default
GMainContext for every thread (g_main_context_new();
g_main_context_push_default_thread()) solves the problem.

Best,
Anton Gerasimov

On 06/14/2017 02:44 PM, Anton Gerasimov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run multiple instances of ostree_repo_pull_with_options
> simultaneously (against different repos) from multiple threads and
> running into various segmentation faults and assertion errors (showing
> reference/dereference mismatch for objects etc.). Simple inspection
> showed no obvious global state, so now I try running it through Valgrind
> to see what's going on.
>
> But before I get too far I just wanted to ask if
> ostree_repo_pull_with_option is actually intended to be run in a
> multithreaded environment, or was it a bad idea initially?
>
> Thanks,
> Anton Gerasimov
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