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

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick LeRoy wrote:
> 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."

However, if the threads are confined to the library's code only?

I have a vague memory that I was told there could be issues in linking, 
but I do not remember who said it nor what they said.

Honestly, I believe theoretically there should be no problem, but I've 
been proved wrong by Condor in the past.

Best,


matt