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

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Paulson wrote:

> We've been burned time and time again by threads on Windows, even though 
> we were convinced that they don't interact with Condor code, and lo, it turns
> out we still crash because of race condidtions. It just doesn't seem worth it.
>  
Yep.  And for that reason, since 6.9.5, the Windows version of 
Create_Thread() no longer creates a thread (the name should probably be 
changed!).  It just creates a timer which will call the desired function 
in a blocking call.

For code that never calls into the Condor code, I would expect threading 
to work, given the caveats pointed out by Greg.  The GCB client library 
might also cause some trouble.

--Dan