Re: [Condor-devel] condor and a threaded library

[Nick LeRoy <nleroy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue January 29 2008, Matthew Farrellee wrote:
> does anyone know of a current reason why a condor daemon could not be
> linked with a library that creates and manages its own threads? if so,
> what is it?

Most of Condor isn't thread safe -- we've made no effort to keep the code 
thread safe (lots of static data, etc).  If any of these threads interacts 
with Condor in any way, the results will likely be bad.  Similar to the 2nd 
commandment: "2 Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness 
await thee at its end."

-Nick

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