Signals & threads - low level C API [Newbie question]

[Thiago Macieira]

Krishna R wrote:
>1. I thought i will create a thread using pthread_create and set my
>receiving filter func there and the main thread will continue to send.
> Is this ok?

Yes, but completely unrelated.

You can create threads in your program. And you can set a receiving filter 
function. libdbus has no control in which thread the filter function is 
called.

It's up to you to run dbus_connection_dispatch (or any of the other 
dispatching functions) in the correct thread.

>2. If i do the above, when i send the signal, the send function seems to
>deadlock in dbus_connection_flush, or the call never returns (i assumed
> it was somekind of deadlock).

What function did you call in the processing thread? If you called 
dbus_connection_read_write, it'll block on the socket access. You need to 
release the transport to make other threads work.

In other words, you need a full mainloop in your thread: a select(2)-based 
socket notifier and timer implementation.

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