Dbus calls interlock issue

[Kaustubh Atrawalkar]

Will threading works here? In signal handler, i will create a pthread with a
function and parameter as pid and the sig_handler returns. The thread does
it cleanup and gconf calls and closes safely. Will it block the server in
any way? Is it safer to make calls from thread?

Cheers,
- Kaustubh (aka. Silverroots)
[www.kaustubh.org]



On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:

> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:50 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> >> One of the few safe things to do is write the pid to a pipe (as in
> >> pipe(2)) and return; whenever a pid can be read from the other end of
> >> the pipe in your main loop, do your cleanup and D-Bus interactions
> >> there.
> >
> >Though note that if you spawn a large number of children, it is possible
> >for this pipe to be filled such that the signal handled blocks on
> >write()
> >
> >It's generally better to use pselect() or ppoll() and otherwise mask
> >SIGCHLD out from your process.
>
> pselect wasn't available on Linux until very recently.
>
> You should make your pipe non-blocking. If it's full, the event loop is
> going to wake up anyways very soon now.
>
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