Sending new messages from a signal handler

[Thiago Macieira]

Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
>Does this logic we're attempting to use go against DBus concepts or
>current implementation? Is there any reason why it shouldn't work, or
>do you think that's more likely to be a bug in our code?

It's a limitation of the current libdbus-1: when signal handlers are 
called, the DBusConnection locks are still in place. So when you try to 
send a message from in there, you create a deadlock situation.

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