Gio.File and thread-safety

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Hi,

GLib doc recommends to duplicate Gio.Files when using them from another thread.

Is it necessary for APIs that don’t do I/O, like Gio.File.get_relative_path?

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Yes, it is necessary, because those APIs may access private members of the GFile without locking. It’s more about that (for any of the GFile methods) than about being thread-safe with I/O. Being thread-safe with I/O is only one part of concurrency safety with I/O, because as well as other threads you have to interact concurrently with other processes.

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Perfect, thank you!!