From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Cc: Jacky Luk <jacky.luk@primecreation.com>,
netfilter@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is the libnetfilter_queue thread-safe?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:21:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497DB8F5.80600@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232696125.22893.5.camel@ice-age>
Eric Leblond wrote:
> 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.
I think it should be as long as you don't change anything related
to the handle while using it. The remaining parts are merely a
stateless communication mechanism, there's no reason why they
shouldn't be thread-safe.
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2009-01-23 4:02 Is the libnetfilter_queue thread-safe? Jacky Luk
2009-01-23 7:35 ` Eric Leblond
2009-01-26 13:21 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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