A libev based mainloop and lost signals

[Thomas Themel]

Hi,
Excerpts from Thiago Macieira's message of Tue Aug 10 14:30:30 +0200 2010:
> To make this work, you must not use _and_block. You must instead use 
> send_with_reply and make sure that the other thread doesn't pull your reply 
> before you do.

Well, send_with_reply is not an overly nice API for a multithreaded setup since
I have a race between setting the DBusPendingCall's callback and the
dispatching of the reply in the background thread. 

I'm also a little confused since the DBusConnection docs state

 * The most useful function to call from multiple threads at once
 * is dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block(). That is,
 * multiple threads can make method calls at the same time.

So, how would this be true if the _and_block took control of the socket in EACH
thread and the multiple waiters discarded each others' responses?

ciao,
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