Deadlock with libsmbclient functions and Multiple forked processes

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 00:23, Akshay V Rao wrote:
> 
> Well, in each forked process I perform an smbc_open(), smbc_read(), and
> smbc_close(). Do I need to do an smbc_init() before I call these functions
> even though I already did an smbc_init() before I forked the processes?

Do you need your hand held for every step?  Why not try it and see - you
should smbc_init() only after the fork().  

You should use Samba 3.0 if you need to have a specific context to pass
around to avoid using the same one across the forked process.

Andrew Bartlett

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