From 1facd36d00fc5fc18fa9d690979f9e73c0f1d312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:20:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add private glib_get_worker_context() API

The first time this is called, this creates a GMainContext * and a
thread to run it.  Future calls return the same.  There are a lot of
places that we could use this in GLib.
---
 glib/Makefile.am   |  1 +
 glib/glib.symbols  |  1 +
 glib/glibprivate.h |  6 ++++++
 glib/gmain.c       | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 44 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 glib/glibprivate.h

diff --git a/glib/Makefile.am b/glib/Makefile.am
index d92f0e695..863b2b0ec 100644
--- a/glib/Makefile.am
+++ b/glib/Makefile.am
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ uninstall-ms-lib:
 
 libglib_2_0_la_SOURCES = 	\
 	glib_probes.d		\
+	glibprivate.h		\
 	garray.c		\
 	gasyncqueue.c		\
 	gatomic.c		\
diff --git a/glib/glib.symbols b/glib/glib.symbols
index 524f2456d..cf0aeb7f4 100644
--- a/glib/glib.symbols
+++ b/glib/glib.symbols
@@ -1273,6 +1273,7 @@ g_utf16_to_ucs4
 g_utf16_to_utf8
 g_unichar_to_utf8
 g_unichar_validate
+glib_get_worker_context
 glib_pgettext
 glib_gettext
 #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
diff --git a/glib/glibprivate.h b/glib/glibprivate.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2f95369eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/glib/glibprivate.h
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#ifndef __GLIBPRIVATE_H__
+#define __GLIBPRIVATE_H__
+
+GMainContext *glib_get_worker_context (void);
+
+#endif /* __GLIBPRIVATE_H__ */
diff --git a/glib/gmain.c b/glib/gmain.c
index 9c65c5aa5..778395412 100644
--- a/glib/gmain.c
+++ b/glib/gmain.c
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@
 
 #include "gwakeup.h"
 
+#include "glibprivate.h"
+
 /**
  * SECTION:main
  * @title: The Main Event Loop
@@ -378,6 +380,8 @@ static gboolean g_idle_dispatch    (GSource     *source,
 				    GSourceFunc  callback,
 				    gpointer     user_data);
 
+static GMainContext *glib_worker_context;
+
 G_LOCK_DEFINE_STATIC (main_loop);
 static GMainContext *default_main_context;
 static GSList *main_contexts_without_pipe = NULL;
@@ -4954,3 +4958,35 @@ g_main_context_invoke_full (GMainContext   *context,
         }
     }
 }
+
+static gpointer
+glib_worker_main (gpointer data)
+{
+  LOCK_CONTEXT (glib_worker_context);
+
+  while (TRUE)
+    g_main_context_iterate (glib_worker_context, TRUE, TRUE, G_THREAD_SELF);
+
+  return NULL; /* worst GCC warning message ever... */
+}
+
+GMainContext *
+glib_get_worker_context (void)
+{
+  gsize initialised;
+
+  g_thread_init_glib ();
+
+  if (g_once_init_enter (&initialised))
+    {
+      GError *error = NULL;
+
+      glib_worker_context = g_main_context_new ();
+      if (g_thread_create (glib_worker_main, NULL, FALSE, &error) == NULL)
+        g_error ("Creating GLib worker thread failed: %s\n", error->message);
+
+      g_once_init_leave (&initialised, TRUE);
+    }
+
+  return glib_worker_context;
+}