repaint after notify_button() ?

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 17:25:49 +0000
Josh Simonot <JSimonot at live.ca> wrote:

> Aha!  That's the problem:  I call notify_*() from my own thread which
> reads a socket fd from a remote server.  Sounds like the correct way
> to do this is use wl_event_loop_add_fd() to register the socket, and
> read from the fd in the callback?

Hi,

yes.

> I have some non-input messages that need to remain async from
> weston's event loop (ex. some setup during compositor start),  so I
> did a test by keeping the notify_*() event calls in my thread and
> then "dispatch" the event loop by sending a signal over a pipe which
> I registered with wl_event_loop_add_fd().  This appears to be
> working!  I just want to make sure there's no obvious
> problems/race-conditions that come to mind with calling notify_*()
> asynchronously?

Nothing in libweston is meant to be thread-safe, so I'm surprised it
didn't explode more spectacularly, but perhaps that is just a matter of
time.

I very much recommend to not call any libwayland-server or libweston
functions or access any data used by them from another thread.


Thanks,
pq
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