diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | gio/gtask.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gio/gtask.c b/gio/gtask.c index 80df75286..5038cc57e 100644 --- a/gio/gtask.c +++ b/gio/gtask.c @@ -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 |