4 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/src/Daemon/CommLayerServer.h b/src/Daemon/CommLayerServer.h
index ededee5..3a1177d 100644
--- a/src/Daemon/CommLayerServer.h
+++ b/src/Daemon/CommLayerServer.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class CCommLayerServer {
         virtual void Update(const std::string& pMessage, uint64_t pJobID) {};
         virtual void Warning(const std::string& pMessage) {};
         virtual void JobDone(const std::string &pDest, uint64_t pJobID) {};
+        virtual void JobStarted(const std::string &pDest, uint64_t pJobID) {};
         virtual void Warning(const std::string& pMessage, uint64_t pJobID) {};
 };
 
diff --git a/src/Daemon/CommLayerServerDBus.cpp b/src/Daemon/CommLayerServerDBus.cpp
index d3e157d..8077757 100644
--- a/src/Daemon/CommLayerServerDBus.cpp
+++ b/src/Daemon/CommLayerServerDBus.cpp
@@ -230,6 +230,15 @@ void CCommLayerServerDBus::JobDone(const std::string &pDest, uint64_t job_id)
     emit_signal(sig);
 }
 
+void CCommLayerServerDBus::JobStarted(const std::string &pDest, uint64_t job_id)
+{
+    ::DBus::SignalMessage sig("JobStarted");
+    ::DBus::MessageIter wi = sig.writer();
+    wi << pDest;
+    wi << job_id;
+    emit_signal(sig);
+}
+
 void CCommLayerServerDBus::Error(const std::string& arg1)
 {
     ::DBus::SignalMessage sig("Error");
diff --git a/src/Daemon/CommLayerServerDBus.h b/src/Daemon/CommLayerServerDBus.h
index a3b54a7..eda2196 100644
--- a/src/Daemon/CommLayerServerDBus.h
+++ b/src/Daemon/CommLayerServerDBus.h
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ class CCommLayerServerDBus
         virtual void AnalyzeComplete(const map_crash_report_t& arg1);
         virtual void Error(const std::string& arg1);
         virtual void Update(const std::string& pMessage, uint64_t pJobID);
+        //the job id should be enough in jobdone
         virtual void JobDone(const std::string& pDest, uint64_t pJobID);
+        virtual void JobStarted(const std::string& pDest, uint64_t pJobID);
         virtual void Warning(const std::string& pMessage);
         virtual void Warning(const std::string& pMessage, uint64_t pJobID);
 };
diff --git a/src/Daemon/CrashWatcher.cpp b/src/Daemon/CrashWatcher.cpp
index 2713179..288ecc0 100644
--- a/src/Daemon/CrashWatcher.cpp
+++ b/src/Daemon/CrashWatcher.cpp
@@ -119,18 +119,7 @@ static void *create_report(void *arg)
     thread_data_t *thread_data = (thread_data_t *) arg;
     map_crash_info_t crashReport;
 
-    /* Ugly hack.
-     * We use DBus signals to talk to clients.
-     * If the report thread emits a signal with embedded job id before
-     * main thread returns this job id as a CreateReport() DBus call's
-     * return value, the client will not be able to understand
-     * that this signal is for its job.
-     * By no means this is the right solution. The right one would be
-     * to ensure that CreateReport() DBus call returns _before_
-     * we continue here. This will need substantial surgery
-     * on our DBus machinery. TODO.
-     */
-    usleep(10*1000);
+    g_pCommLayer->JobStarted(thread_data->dest, thread_data->thread_id);
 
     log("Creating report...");
     try