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

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Bradley wrote:
> 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.

Yes, GCB. Do you know if --wrap to the linker means that wrapping /only/ 
occurs once at link time or if it can occur at dynamic link time when a 
process is started?

Best,


matt