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| author | Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> | 2005-05-20 17:15:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Matthias Clasen <matthiasc@src.gnome.org> | 2005-05-20 17:15:37 +0000 |
| commit | 6b361806794398721a3c317c2a49997c36f8e6df (patch) | |
| tree | edaa11b5cd883e2e51920000583be98b5b5d496e /docs | |
| parent | a9fc3503a1440a95c95e3f3a6822986fc873613b (diff) | |
Add a paragraph about thread safety of GLib data structures.
2005-05-20 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
* glib/tmpl/threads.sgml: Add a paragraph about thread
safety of GLib data structures.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/reference/ChangeLog | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/reference/glib/tmpl/threads.sgml | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/reference/ChangeLog b/docs/reference/ChangeLog index 3e2105004..0c9df5f73 100644 --- a/docs/reference/ChangeLog +++ b/docs/reference/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2005-05-20 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> + * glib/tmpl/threads.sgml: Add a paragraph about thread + safety of GLib data structures. + * glib/compiling.sgml: Update an example from 1.3 to 2.x 2005-05-13 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> diff --git a/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/threads.sgml b/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/threads.sgml index e84bb98c5..80f50cc95 100644 --- a/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/threads.sgml +++ b/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/threads.sgml @@ -32,6 +32,14 @@ for thread-private data, that every thread has a private instance of primitives to portably create and manage threads (#GThread). </para> +<para> +You must call g_thread_init() before executing any other GLib functions +in a threaded GLib program. After that, GLib is completely thread safe +(all global data is automatically locked). But individual data structure +instances are not automatically locked for performance reasons. So e.g. +you must coordinate accesses to the same #GHashTable from multiple threads. +</para> + <!-- ##### SECTION See_Also ##### --> <para> <variablelist> |