Deadlock with libsmbclient functions and Multiple forked processes

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Jun 13 14:13:38 GMT 2003


On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 00:08, Akshay V Rao wrote:
> 
> 
> Well, I tried doing this using threads in the first place but found out
> that libsmbclient was not thread safe.  I then moved to forked processes,
> therefore, it is in a different address space.  I am not sure that if I
> open and close (and read) connections in each forked process, shouldn't
> they be different because they exist in different address spaces - where as
> threads exist in the same address space.

Sure, but each needs to make it's own connection to the server...

Andrew Bartlett

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