Re: multithreaded use

Awesome!  you guys just saved me several months worth of work to
produce something that wouldn't have been as advanced as what you
currently have.  Thanks!  I look forward to working with this library
and with your development team in the future.

Luke


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:46:40 +0100
DINH Viet Hoa <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Luke Ehresman wrote :
> 
> > I'm excited to find libetpan!  I have been using c-client, but
> > discovered its limitations in a multi-threaded environment.  I have
> > searched and searched for another good C imap library, but for some
> > reason never ran across this project until now.  It looks like exactly
> > what I need.
> > 
> > I have read through the documentation and there was one question I
> > still have that was left unanswered.  Is this library thread safe?  The
> > c-client library is not, and I started working on making it thread
> > safe, but it was going to be a massive project.
> 
> libetpan is not thread safe but it is reentrant.
> That means that you can do calls from several thread if you do
> manipulate different datastructure in those threads.
> 
> > I am working on a multi-user webmail system (Aeromys --
> > www.aeromys.org).  Each user will have a unique connection to his or
> > her mail server.  There will only be one connection per user, but there
> > will be multiple users in different threads.  Will this library handle
> > this situation without problems?
> 
> That kind of situation will be handled without problems.
> 
> > Along the same lines, would it be possible for me to remove the
> > limitation of having only one thread working on a connection at a
> > time?  By this I mean, could I have a background thread caching mail
> > for the user while he/she is also browsing?  Both of these threads
> > would be working on the same connection.
> 
> You will have to lock the access to the connection.
> Basically, a mail access will be represented by an object 'storage', 
> each time you want to access this mail access, you will have to lock 
> that object.
> 
> > Thanks for your time, I am seriously hoping this library will save me
> > from having to write my own.  It looks very promising.  Good work, and
> > thanks.
> 
> I am using this library in a multithreaded IMAP client : etpan-ng.
> 
> -- 
> DINH V. Hoa,
> 
> "ben le problème c'est que les voitures à motorisations XXL
>     ça passe rarement inaperçu" -- raoul
> 


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