It's not used outside of the libvirt-glib-event.c file, so there is no good reason for not having it static. As it was not listed in libvirt-glib.sym, this will make no change to the publicly exported symbols (ie this is not an ABI change). --- libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib-event.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib-event.c b/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib-event.c index f8227d6..4548aa6 100644 --- a/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib-event.c +++ b/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib-event.c @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ struct gvir_event_timeout virFreeCallback ff; }; -GMutex *eventlock = NULL; +static GMutex *eventlock = NULL; static int nextwatch = 1; static GPtrArray *handles; -- 2.4.3