Re: [Libevent-users] questions about bufferevent callbacks in multithreaded code

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Sashan Govender <sashang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to clarify my understanding of how bufferevent objects work with
> mulithreaded code. If a bufferevent triggers a callback (read or write) does
> it hold a lock until that callback completes?

Ordinarily, yes. You can override this with the
BEV_OPT_UNLOCK_CALLBACKS option, as described in
http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/Ref6_bufferevent.html

> Do the locks use a recursive
> mutex?

Yes.

Yrs,
-- 
Nick
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