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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Using dbus from multiple threads
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: 2010-09-22 10:00:06
Message-ID: 201009221200.06944.faure () kde ! org
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While QtDBus is threadsafe, there's a bug in libdbus < 1.4 which makes
applications misbehave when using QDBusConnection::sessionBus() from multiple
threads.
For this reason, kdelibs/nepomuk has a DBusConnectionPool, which provides one
dbus connection (to the session bus) per thread.
Now the akonadi guys are having the same problem, and are about to put a copy
of dbusconnectionpool in kdepimlibs/akonadi, at my advice.
That's two users, would there be any others?
In that case we could have a KDBusConnectionPool in kdecore, with a BusType
argument added to the current code, so that solid can maybe use this for the
SystemBus as well.
The main downside of this, is that this is all a "temporary" workaround until
everyone uses libdbus >= 1.4. But this might take quite some time, so I think
we should still have this. We can always deprecate it in a few years, won't be
the first time.
--
David Faure, faure@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).
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