Re: Threading in tux modules

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Jason Borden wrote:

> I have a project I'm working on that caches data received from an ldap
> directory and runs a background thread to refresh the cache when the
> data changes. I've run into some issues with running threads inside of a
> tux module, but have found a way to make it work. For some reason, I am
> unable to make the thread work if it is created at the TUXAPI_init
> stage, [...]

TUXAPI_init is executed before the main TUX processes are forked - those
processes have a separate VM so the threads created in TUXAPI_init wont
work as expected.

perhaps there should be an optional TUXAPI_init_postfork call as well?

	Ingo