Damintha, Thank you for your reply. Does this mean I need to use the set of apr_* mutex functions or will the standard pthread functions be sufficient? Do you know of any examples that make use of mutexes?
Thanks Evan On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Damitha Kumarage <dami...@wso2.com> wrote: > Evan Klinger wrote: >> >> Hello, >> When developing a REST service in Axis2/C, how does Apache handle the >> integration with the Axis2 module? When a request comes in that is >> passed to the Axis2 module, does each request create a new instance of >> the service or is it a new thread? > > It is a new thread >> >> Basically, in the service we may >> need to open a file for writing but also for reading, depending upon >> the request. However, we don't want to read while the file is being >> written to so it seems like we need a rw lock/mutex, but that will >> only work if the service is called by multiple threads. If they are >> called from separate processes then I don't think this approach will >> work. Any information on how to handle this would be greatly >> appreciated. >> > > For each Apache process there will be a separate Axis2/C engine/service. > Within that process > a single service would handle all requests coming for that service. So you > need to handle mt. > Thanks, > Damitha >> >> Thank you >> Evan >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: c-user-unsubscr...@axis.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: c-user-h...@axis.apache.org >> >> >> > > > -- > __________________________________________________________________ > > Damitha Kumarage > Technical Lead; WSO2 Inc. > "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform; " http://www.wso2.com/ > > blog: " http://damithakumarage.wordpress.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: c-user-unsubscr...@axis.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: c-user-h...@axis.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: c-user-unsubscr...@axis.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: c-user-h...@axis.apache.org
