About dbus watch functions

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 11 de July de 2011 09:55:09 Simon McVittie wrote:
> You'd make life much easier for yourself if you do all interaction with
> D-Bus in one thread (either your main thread, as is traditional with
> dbus-glib, or a dedicated D-Bus thread, as is done internally by GDBus)
> and never block that thread (except in a select(), poll() or equivalent
> that includes the D-Bus fd).
> 
> (You'd also make life much easier for yourself if you use a well-known
> main loop implementation, like GLib's GSource/GMainContext/GMainLoop
> or Qt's QCoreApplication.)

Note that QtDBus does access libdbus from several threads and from the 
experience writing that, I can't recommend as an easy solution. The watch and 
timeout functions you set will be called from *all* threads and you'll need to 
make your own re-synchronisation with your event loop thread.

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