From: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
To: Jacky Luk <jacky.luk@primecreation.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is the libnetfilter_queue thread-safe?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:35:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1232696125.22893.5.camel@ice-age> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <web-4707182@mail.primecreation.com>
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Hi,
Le vendredi 23 janvier 2009 à 12:02 +0800, Jacky Luk a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask a question about the
> libnetfilter_queue. Is the libnetfilter_queue thread-safe?
Is had yet to be decide :/ From my experience on NuFW, you can use it
with multithreaded programs and you can have a reading thread and a
writing thread working together on the same queue.
> Would the API of libnetfilter_queue cause the kernel crash
> under multi-threading environment?
Clearly not, the worse that can happen is an application crash not a
kernel crash.
BR,
--
Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
INL: http://www.inl.fr/
NuFW: http://www.nufw.org/
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-23 4:02 Is the libnetfilter_queue thread-safe? Jacky Luk
2009-01-23 7:35 ` Eric Leblond [this message]
2009-01-26 13:21 ` Patrick McHardy
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