Switch GCond to using monotonic time for timed waits by introducing a
new API based on monotonic time in a gint64: g_cond_wait_until().
Deprecate the old API based on wallclock time in a GTimeVal.
Fix up the gtk-doc for GCond while we're at it: update the examples to
use static-allocated GCond and GMutex and clarify some things a bit.
Also explain the rationale behind using an absolute time instead of a
relative time.
We'll hold out on this until someone has a really convincing reason for
why they need to control the stack size.
If we do decide to add it back, it should probably have a name like
_new_with_stack_size(), not _full().
And remove the 'joinable' argument from g_thread_new() and
g_thread_new_full().
Change the wording in the docs. Clarify expectations for
(deprecated) g_thread_create().
GThread is freed using some very slightly confusing logic: if the thread
was created 'joinable', then the structure is freed after the join()
call succeeds (since we know the thread has exited). If the thread was
not created 'joinable' then the free is when the thread quits (since we
know 'join' will not be called later).
Move to a straight ref-counting system: 1 ref owned by the thread and 1
extra ref if the thread is joinable. Both thread quit and joining will
decrease the refcount by 1.
Keep track of if we created a thread for ourselves or if the GThread*
was allocated in response to g_thread_self() on a previously-unknown
thread.
Only call g_system_thread_free() in the first case.
Add g_system_thread_new() and g_system_thread_free(), implemented with
GSlice. Use those instead of g_new() and g_free().
Presently, the backends are both doing the same thing. This will change
soon.
The use of system_thread is now limited to joining. We don't do that
for threads that we didn't create for ourselves, so we don't need to
call g_system_thread_self() to fill in system_thread for those.
Thanks to the modifications in 3d4846d92309d001697c2827660fa41b5c63dbc4,
GStaticPrivate is not so directly tied in with GThread anymore. It is
now a simple matter to cut it out completely by using a GPrivate to
store the GArray instead of storing it in the GThread.
Give the macro wrapper treatment to g_once_init_enter() and leave() in
the same style that we did for gatomic.
It is now possible to use these macros with any pointer-sized object,
and not just gsize. The leave() macro ensures that the initialisation
result is a compatible type with the pointer that it is being written
to.
Just like with gatomic, there could be problems caused by use of (void*)
casts. We'll see how that goes, and reevaluate if necessary.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660743
All locks are now zero-initialised, so we can drop the G_*_INIT macros
for them.
Adjust various users around GLib accordingly and change the docs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659866
This commit moves GStaticPrivate, g_thread_foreach and all
related functions and variables to gthread-deprecated.c. We
introduce some internal API to make this possible.
g_thread_foreach is not a very useful function, since there is
virtually nothing you can do with a GThread*, and implementing
it requires us to keep a list of threads around.
GStaticPrivate has been made redundant by adding comparable
capabilities to GPrivate.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660635
Deprecate both g_thread_create functions and add
g_thread_new() and g_thread_new_full(). The new functions
expect a name for the thread.
Change GThreadPool, GMainContext and GDBus to create named threads.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660635
Take out the half-private g_private_init() stuff and replace it with a
G_PRIVATE_INIT macro that allows specifying a GDestroyNotify.
Expose the GPrivate structure in a public header.
Add a g_private_replace() to (sort of) match the functionality of
g_static_mutex_set().
Improve the documentation.
Deprecate g_private_new().
To avoid iterating threads in g_static_private_free(), defer freeing
the per-thread data to thread exit. The one complication here is
that it is possible for the static private index to be reused while
'old' data is still around. To deal with that case, store the 'owner'
with each per-thread data node, and free old data in
g_static_private_get() if the owner doesn't match. The remaining
possibility that a private index could be reused by a GStaticPrivate
with the same address is sufficiently unlikely that we can probably
ignore it.
With this change, per-thread data is now truly private again,
and we can drop the lock for it as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660635
