Well I've got running and I'm seeing no problems of conflict. No downloads requests are handled whilst the mutex is locked hence only a single trap is sent and only any one download requests is handled at any one time.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Shield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gary Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 3:39 AM Subject: Re: Sending traps in another thread > Robert> Ok, lets see if I got this right. You have the main agent thread, > Robert> and two worker threads. The worker threads don't do any SNMP other > Robert> than to call send_v2trap. Is that right? > > Gary> Yep you got it. > > Urk! I'm not sure that's safe. > > As far as I remember, doesn't the 'send_trap_vars' mechanism use the > same (non-thread-safe) set of APIs as the incoming request handling? > I'd expect this to suffer from problems between generating traps > and receiving incoming requests. > > In order for that to work safely, wouldn't it be necessary to rework > the 'send_trap_vars' code to use the SSI approach instead? > > All of the locking that you talk about sounds to be aimed at a different > area of potential conflict. I'm not at all sure that you're protected > against races within the SNMP library itself. > > > Dave > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE > LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Net-snmp-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
