gtask: Document that g_task_run_in_thread() uses a shared resource

It’s a bad idea to use it without some care for how much it’s being
called in parallel, or dependencies between tasks. If the thread pool
gets exhausted by too many inter-dependent calls to
`g_task_run_in_thread()` then the process will livelock.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
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Philip Withnall 2023-04-25 15:14:03 +01:00
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@ -1634,6 +1634,13 @@ g_task_start_task_thread (GTask *task,
* tasks), but don't want them to all run at once, you should only queue a
* limited number of them (around ten) at a time.
*
* Be aware that if your task depends on other tasks to complete, use of this
* function could lead to a livelock if the other tasks also use this function
* and enough of them (around 10) execute in a dependency chain, as that will
* exhaust the thread pool. If this situation is possible, consider using a
* separate worker thread or thread pool explicitly, rather than using
* g_task_run_in_thread().
*
* Since: 2.36
*/
void