_dbus_connection_acquire_io_path lock

[Thiago Macieira]

jaikumar Ganesh wrote:
>a) What exactly does the io_path lock accomplish ? Can the code be
> safely reentrant ?

One thread is blocking on a select call. Any activity on the socket will 
possibly make that thread wake up and, therefore, do some work.

Technically speaking, a simple "send" (without reply) could be done by 
acquiring a simple write lock on the socket, while not bothering with a 
read one.

But that's extremely complex to implement, given the possibility for 
deadlocks: some situations require reading only, some require writing 
only, some require both. So there's only one lock, for the entire socket: 
any I/O operation must acquire that lock.

>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 ?

No, you should use a real event loop integration if your application is 
not a trivial one (single threaded and only does blocking calls).

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