Thread safety

[Thiago Macieira]

keith preston wrote:
>I've run into a few problems described on this thread.
>http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2007-July/008144.html
>
>The solution I use is a custom build of dbus without the locks dropping
> on that specific funciton.   It seems to work, because when it calls
> out of dbus code in that function it only call the glib add timeout
> routine

I would say that some functions aren't meant to be thread-safe and  I 
would qualify connection setup functions as such.

You should finish setting up the connection (connect, handshake, set 
timeout and watch callbacks) before any other thread gets to use the 
connection.

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