C convenience lib (was Re: Is dbus_pending_call_set_notify() thread safe?)

[Thiago Macieira]

nf2 wrote:
>I thought that Qt uses GLib threads when compiled with GLib support.

No, it still uses pthreads directly on Unix systems. But that's not the 
issue. The state of a recursive mutex is kept inside a QMutex, regardless 
of the mutex backend. Same for wait conditions.

That means you can't tell libdbus to change to another binding because all 
of the state will be lost.

>So if there were a tiny "gbus" library, just caring about the main-loop
>watches and threads, being used by both Qt and the bigger GLib bindings,
>things should work...

Caring about the main-loop, watches and threads is a main component of 
QtDBus.

Besides, I cannot make QtDBus depend on a library that uses the glib main 
loop because that's an optional feature for Qt. Qt and QtDBus must work 
without glib as well.

>Otherwise it will be hard to design asynchronous libraries, which
>internally use D-BUS, and can be used by both desktop environments...
>(And i believe that has been one reason for having GLib main loop
>support in Qt).

Indeed. I've raised this issue on this list more than once.

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