[PATCH] Re: Threading problems in (Win)DBus

[Havoc Pennington]

Hi,

Good catch, I would do the patch differently:
  - leave all the stuff protected by connection->mutex as bitfields,
    including the have_connection_lock flag
  - move dispatch_acquired and io_path_acquired down below the bitfields
    and make them dbus_bool_t instead of bitfields

This is an opaque struct so there is no binary compat concern.

Only 8 bytes more should be needed, since there's no problem with the 
bit fields in general, only with the two flags protected by a different 
lock, right?

I would also put a small comment before the two dbus_bool_t like
"/* not a bitfield because all bits in a bitfield must be protected by 
the same mutex */"

If these changes make sense to you I will just make them, it isn't 
necessary to redo the patch.

Thanks for the fix, I would not have found this very quickly ;-)

Havoc