Add a note about this method not being safe in multithreaded contexts

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/dbus/qdbusconnection.cpp b/src/dbus/qdbusconnection.cpp
index 6777aa5200..14cadd9607 100644
--- a/src/dbus/qdbusconnection.cpp
+++ b/src/dbus/qdbusconnection.cpp
@@ -973,8 +973,15 @@ QDBusConnection QDBusConnection::systemBus()
 }
 
 /*!
+  \nonreentrant
+
   Returns the connection that sent the signal, if called in a slot activated
   by QDBus; otherwise it returns 0.
+
+  \note Please avoid this function. This function is not thread-safe, so if
+  there's any other thread delivering a D-Bus call, this function may return
+  the wrong connection. In new code, please use QDBusContext::connection()
+  (see that class for a description on how to use it).
 */
 QDBusConnection QDBusConnection::sender()
 {