Suggestion about an emoticon plugin implementation ...

[Ethan Blanton]

Mauro Sérgio Ferreira Brasil spake unto us the following wisdom:
> One example was the GMutex used on "send_cb" method of 
> "flap_connection.c" file from ICQ protocol. This mutex has the simple 
> purpose to assure the ICQ primitives will have different sequence numbers.
> Without this change, ICQ protocol hangs up all time, and I took a little 
> longer to realize that some primitives were being sent with the same 
> sequence number, what leaded to protocolo hang up.

Libpurple is *explicitly* not threadsafe; you will need to make sure
that libpurple is being accessed by one thread, and one thread only.
This is not an uncommon requirement.

Ethan

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