SolarMutex: please educate me

[Noel Grandin]

On 2013-05-15 13:10, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>
> Sure, as I already wrote: "all GUI frameworks have settled on 'confine 
> relevant code to run in a single event-loop thread' instead" for a 
> reason.  However, doing that change is an endeavor far from trivial...
>


Perhaps one approach would be
(a) define a special configure flag --find-bad-ui-threadingg
(b) when compiled in that mode, change the SolarMutex code so that it 
whinges loudly if acquired from outside the event thread
(c) create a MediumHack which says
       Calll configure with --find-bad-ui-threading.
       Run LO
       Fix places which are calling back into the event thread to use 
code like XXXX::pushToEventLoop(.....)

That way, people of medium C++ skill could gradually chip away at the 
problem.

Regards, Noel.

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