[ECOS] Re: Are Socket Descriptors Thread Safe?
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
Fri May 21 17:40:00 GMT 2004
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 04:10:32PM +0100, Nick Garnett wrote:
>> We have a product that is setup exactly as you describe using
>> the FreeBSD stack, except it uses TCP instead of UDP. No
>> thread problems ...
Same here.
> Indeed. In Unix sockets can be used by multiple indpendent
> processes through fork() so it must work in BSD. We have
> preserved the multithreading/synchronization model of BSD in
> the network stack so this should all still work as intended.
There were a few mutex bugs with the old network stack back in
the 1.2.1 days, but they were all fixed years ago.
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Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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