Obviously this depends on the application making the callout. For all the standard GT services, I believe the answer is no as I don't think any of them do authz in a thread.
If someone were to write a threaded service using the callout, obviously that changes things. Von Thawan Kooburat wrote: > Hi, > I am writing a "Gridmap callout" module from an information > provided by this link > > http://www.globus.org/security/callouts/ > > I am just a beginner for C programming but I would like to know if > I have to make this module a thread-safe? > > I am planning to make this module read/update a particular file > when it receive a request, but I am not sure if I have to implement > any locking mechanism (which I still don't know how to do this) so > that multiple requests do not interfere with each other. > > > Thanks, > > Thawan Koooubrat > > Department of Computer Engineering > Faculty of Engineering > Chulalongkorn University > >
