Re: My process is blocked while sendin a trap

Sure, I understand that.

I just try to figure out how difficult it would be to implement it myself.


>From: "Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
>To: "Arnaud BODENAN" <[email protected]>
>CC: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: My process is blocked while sendin a trap
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:01:12 +0100
>
>On 11/10/06, Arnaud BODENAN <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Concerning the two sessions:
>>- they would be created in the same thread?
>>- or there would be one thread managing the session for get/set...,
>>    and one thread managing traps?
>
>I don't know - this idea is at a very early stage.
>As I've already said several times - *nothing* is going to happen
>until 5.4 is out of the door.
>
>But I'm pretty sure that everything would be handled within the same
>thread - the Net-SNMP agent framework is not designed with
>multi-threading in mind.  And tryiing to shoe-horn this in without a
>clear understanding of the implications would probably cause more
>problems than it solved.
>
>I'm *hopeful* that the problem here is a deadlock between try to
>read/write on the same socket,  and using two different sockets should
>fix things.
>   But that is *NOT* a guarantee, and it may prove necessary to think
>about using a completely separate thread.  In which case this would
>delay implementation even further.
>
>
>But I'll repeat once more - nothing is likely to happen regarding this
>issue until significantly after 5.4.   There is a finite amount of
>time that each of us can spend on this project, and we cannot delay
>making releases indefinitely.   There comes a point at which we need
>to prioritise where the effort is directed - and this issue falls on
>the wrong side of the line, IMO.
>
>Sorry.
>
>Dave

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