Hi all, I'm a little confused regarding apr_socket_close thread-safety and maybe someone can help me here.
I'm building a small socket server. On the main thread (thread 1 below) I spawn different threads that run a function named 'request_processor_function' (below). The main thread then accepts requests and inserts them in a thread-safe queue, and the 'request_processor_function' listens for requests in this queue and processes them. The fact is that I want each thread to close the connection when the request is processed, so at the end of my thread function I invoke a apr_socket_close. Thinks work without problems, but then suddently everything stops running and I see threads locked in apr_pool_cleanup_exit, which is invoked from apr_socket_close (see below for an excerpt of a gdb session). My question is: how do I thread-safely invoke apr_socket_close? Shall I create a mutex on the main thread and then sequentially invoke apr_socket_close? Thanks in advance, Antonio P.S.: gdb excerpt with the problem: (gdb) info threads 11 Thread 0xb2cfcb70 (LWP 15719) 0xb7efcddb in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 10 Thread 0xb34fdb70 (LWP 15718) 0xb7efcddb in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 9 Thread 0xb3cfeb70 (LWP 15717) 0xb7efcddb in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 8 Thread 0xb44ffb70 (LWP 15716) 0xb7efcd93 in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 7 Thread 0xb4e8cb70 (LWP 15715) 0xb7efcddb in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 6 Thread 0xb568db70 (LWP 15714) 0xb7efcdc9 in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 5 Thread 0xb5e8eb70 (LWP 15713) 0xb7efcd99 in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 4 Thread 0xb668fb70 (LWP 15712) 0xb7efcdd4 in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 3 Thread 0xb6e90b70 (LWP 15711) 0xb7efcd99 in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 2 Thread 0xb7891b70 (LWP 15710) 0xb7efcddb in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 * 1 Thread 0xb78c8720 (LWP 15695) 0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) thread 11 [Switching to thread 11 (Thread 0xb2cfcb70 (LWP 15719))]#0 0xb7efcddb in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (gdb) backtrace #0 0xb7efcddb in apr_pool_cleanup_kill () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #1 0xb7efceb6 in apr_pool_cleanup_run () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #2 0xb7effa9b in apr_socket_close () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #3 0x080515d1 in thread_close_socket (client_socket=0xb454e7d0) at server.c:449 #4 0x08051815 in request_processor_function (thread=0x879b070, data=0x86f8880) at server.c:491 #5 0xb7f0a681 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #6 0xb7a9ce99 in start_thread (arg=0xb2cfcb70) at pthread_create.c:304 #7 0xb7e5373e in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/clone.S:130 (gdb)
