Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:48:58 -0600 (CST) From: Rob King <jking@pernet.net> To: FengYue <fengyue@bluerose.windmoon.nu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PThreads and Sockets Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911271746010.6921-100000@deadpixi.pernet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911271507450.42278-100000@bluerose.windmoon.nu>
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> There is a race condition. You're passing sd2's address to serverstart() > and inside serverstart() you def' the pointer. What if > "sd2=accept(sd, (struct sockaddr*)&cad, &alen)" gets > executed before your previous serverstart() finishs "sd2 = *((int*)ptr)"? > > btw, IMHO, creating threads per connection is a very bad design. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > How would you recommend I do it? Please remember, I have no experience with pthreads, and any advice you give would be greatly appreciated. I tried doing a pool of threads created at startup, and I think that may be a better approach...That would allow tighter control of resource limits - do something like Apache, have a "maximum number" of processes running. Anyway, thanks for the help. Rob -- Rob King Network Administrator - PERnet Communications, Inc. jking@pernet.net - http://www.pernet.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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