_dbus_connection_acquire_io_path lock

[jaikumar Ganesh]

Folks,
   I have an application with two threads (same process) communicating with
dbus.

One thread blocks on the socket poll, and the other thread then needs to do
some work.
The connection object lock is released but the io_path lock is not released
and hence the second thread just hangs waiting to get the io_path lock.

Couple of questions:

a) What exactly does the io_path lock accomplish ? Can the code be safely
reentrant ?
b) I have seen mentions of DBusWatch and DBusTimeout to use in such cases.
    Any pointers to some code samples ?
c) Any other work arounds ?


Thanks and appreciate your help.

-Jaikumar
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