On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:36:53AM -0700, Brian Pane wrote: > It's not entire libraries that will have to be mutexed, just > calls to non-thread-safe functions within libraries. That > will reduce the concurrency of the server, but in general > not so severely that it's only serving one request at a time.
Actually, it depends on the library. You could have multiple functions in a library that all dork with a common bit of non-thread-local state. You have to either mutex *all* calls to the library with one big lock, or examine the library to make sure that it's safe to do less
