[gst-devel] "threadsafe" signals

[Benjamin Otte]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Colin Walters wrote:

> No no, what I'm saying is to do it like this:
>
> static gboolean
> my_emit_signal_idle (...)
> {
>   g_signal_emit (...)
>   return FALSE;
> }
>
> static void
> my_emit_signal (...)
> {
>   if (gst_in_main_thread ())
>     my_emit_signal_idle (...)
>   else
>     g_idle_add ((GSourceFunc) my_emit_signal_idle, ...)
> }
>
Which limits you to the main thread (or in this case main context) and
still only allows signal emissions inside one thread, albeit another one.

Benjamin