[Development] invokeMethod() with function pointers
Gunnar Roth
gunnar.roth at gmx.de
Fri Jan 20 23:51:32 CET 2017
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> I respect the fact that you rejected Qt::BlockingAutoConnection in 2014 because of its potential danger, but I'm not sure that it's better to let people use the "QThread::currentThread() == this" pattern without being warned rather than implementing Qt::BlockingAutoConnection, with a detailed warning in the doc.
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> Moreover, I don't understand whi BlockingAutoConnection would be more dangerous (if it were to be added) than BlockingQueuedConnection is currently already dangerous.
I also don’t understand why adding "QThread::currentThread() == this“ should make the method more dangerous, actually it makes it a bit more safe for the same thread case, the potential deadlock problem remains with or without.
Regards,
Gunnar Roth
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