It's unsafe for two threads to call event_init() in parallel because it sets and returns the global current_base variable. If the first thread gets preempted by the second after calloc() but before the return, both calls will return the same value.
My question is whether one should be concerned about the use of current_base in other parts of the code. For example, event_set() uses current_base while setting the priority. Is there any chance that a preemption will occur in the middle of retrieving the value of current_base resulting in an invalid pointer? Also, I assume that each process that loads libevent as a shared object must get its own copy of current_base, right? Harry _______________________________________________ Libevent-users mailing list Libevent-users@monkey.org http://monkey.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users
