Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
> Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:13 PM, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)"
>> <m...@3v1n0.net> wrote:
>>> Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
>>>> Unfortunately testing it with the msn-purple plugin (I've tried also
>>>> with Facebook, but I've some issues with the certs) the test client
>>>> attached segfaults.
>>> I've made one more test using Google Talk (so a jabber server), and now
>>> I've a different behavior:
>> Are you sure any of these functions that call
>> ecore_{idler,fd_handler,timer}_add are NOT executed from threads? I'm
>> asking this because glib allows you to call these primitives from
>> threads if you did g_threads_init()
>
> Well, I've not sure about this (I've not studied so much libpurple, I've
> done this only in few hours), but it doesn't seem the case.
> Using looking at the value returned by pthread_self() in various parts
> of the program (especially putting it in the callback functions), it has
> returns always the same value.
Ah, to confirm this there's the WhatIsLibpurple libpurple wiki page [1]
that simply states:
> Is it threaded?
>
> libpurple is not threadsafe. It should be accessed by an implementing UI only
> one thread ever (that is, do not attempt to use synchronization or locks to
> access it from multiple threads).. Plugins can use multiple threads, but they
> must always call libpurple functions and callbacks on the thread on which
> they were initialized (typically the main thread of the program).
> libpurple's run loop access occurs through eventloop.c; the UI must implement
> the UI Ops defined there and register them in order to watch sockets for new
> data and call timeout functions after a specified delay. For example, Pidgin
> uses the glib run loop, and Adium uses the Cocoa event run loop.
So, the thread thing, doesn't seem to affect us.
>> but Ecore does not, in such case
>> you need to pipe primitives to main thread and fd_handler them, or
>> ecore_pipe for ready to use.
>
> Mhmh... Any example to show? :P
So forget about this... ;)
[1] http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple
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