The Source engine is NOT thread safe. You will need to access the engine interface from the main thread and then use some safe dispatch mechanism to get them to your other threads.
- Alfred Olef van de Stadt wrote: > My plugin needs to create some threads for checking purposes. > The concept is as follows: > When a player has got a successfull Steam-ID, that ID is checked > against > an SQL database. > To prevent the server from stalling, I use the threads (pthreads for > linux, windows threads for... you guessed it.) > In that thread I make calls to engine->GetPlayerNetworkIDString and > playerinfo->GetPlayerNetworkIDString. > > Both crash "every now and then" on those calls or return NULL > pointers. > > Is there any way I can get those classes to work in threads ? > Or are there specific functions to call prior to accessing these > class' > functions ? > > Thanks, > - Olef van de Stadt. > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
