[gst-cvs] gstreamer: paramspecs: add note about racyness

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Module: gstreamer
Branch: master
Commit: 004f981edb839397f68029fa0cf7f23537826165
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/commit/?id=004f981edb839397f68029fa0cf7f23537826165

Author: Wim Taymans <wim...@co...>
Date:   Tue Apr 14 19:11:44 2009 +0200

paramspecs: add note about racyness

Add a note about potential racyness in _is_mutable().

---

 gst/gstparamspecs.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gst/gstparamspecs.c b/gst/gstparamspecs.c
index 120113b..7476cd1 100644
--- a/gst/gstparamspecs.c
+++ b/gst/gstparamspecs.c
@@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ gst_param_spec_fraction (const gchar * name, const gchar * nick,
  * Checks if an object property for the GstElement given in @element
  * may be modified given the current state of @element.
  *
+ * Note: By the time this method returns, the state of the element might have
+ * changed already. Use this method only if you can control the state of the
+ * element between calling this method and setting the property, such as with a
+ * mutex.
+ *
  * Returns: TRUE if the property may be modified
  *
  * Since: 0.10.23