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authorVolker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer@nokia.com>2010-04-20 16:04:22 (GMT)
committerVolker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer@nokia.com>2010-04-20 16:04:22 (GMT)
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Document that QFileSystemWatcher needs to be destroyed before ~QCoreApp
Fixes: QT-3305 Rev-By: Denis
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-rw-r--r--src/corelib/io/qfilesystemwatcher.cpp5
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diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qfilesystemwatcher.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qfilesystemwatcher.cpp
index 00af3fd..18c3c9f 100644
--- a/src/corelib/io/qfilesystemwatcher.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/io/qfilesystemwatcher.cpp
@@ -426,6 +426,11 @@ QFileSystemWatcher::QFileSystemWatcher(const QStringList &paths, QObject *parent
/*!
Destroys the file system watcher.
+
+ \note To avoid deadlocks on shutdown, all instances of QFileSystemWatcher
+ need to be destroyed before QCoreApplication. Note that passing
+ QCoreApplication::instance() as the parent object when creating
+ QFileSystemWatcher is not sufficient.
*/
QFileSystemWatcher::~QFileSystemWatcher()
{