Re: threads and pipelining

As a followup, Jens had proposed an alternate method that may work
right. I don't see any problem, except for the cache (which isn't shared).
Each thread should have its own cache directory.


http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/2000JulSep/0166.html

In our previous episode, jose.kahan@w3.org said:
> Hello,
> 
> In our previous episode, Mihut Ionescu said:
> > 
> > I would like to build a multithreaded proxy using libwww.  Each thread
> > would handle a different connection, where true pipelined requests can be
> > serviced (multiple requests can be received over this connection before
> > any response is sent back).
> 
> Maybe the question is "is libwww multi-thread safe?".
> 
> My answer is that I don't think it's 100 %safe. There are some places
> with global static variables, the authentication trees are not semaphore 
> protected, and so on.

Received on Friday, 1 September 2000 08:30:34 UTC