RE: thread-safe support of snmpd

You can also wrap all calls to the net-snmp api with mutex's

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Story [mailto:rstory@freesnmp.com]=20
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 8:44 AM
To: lglyahoo-misc@yahoo.com.cn
Cc: net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: thread-safe support of snmpd


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:38:31 +0800 (CST) lglyahoo-misc@yahoo.com.cn
wrote:
LMCC> Since there are at least two threads running in
LMCC> snmpd: the main thread which handles SNMP requests and the event=20
LMCC> listening thread, we must make sure snmpd could run thread-safely.

No, snmpd is not thread safe.

LMCC> I use callback mechanism(SNMP_CALLBACK_LIBRARY and
LMCC> SNMP_CALLBACK_SESSION_INIT) to let snmpd create a
LMCC> thread which will listen user defined events and
LMCC> update the global cache or generate traps according to the=20
LMCC> analysis of these events. The global cache is user defined and=20
LMCC> it's used in the MIB handlers.

The only way to use snmpd in a multi-threaded application is to keep ALL
snmp functionality in ONE thread. Other threads may listen for non-snmp
related events, and notify the snmpd thread that a trap needs to be
sent, but the trap itself must be sent from the snmpd thread.

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You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different.=20


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