On Jun 7, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Gutjahr, Troy wrote:
> I tried my test program with libssh2-0.14. It works. libssh2_sftp_init
> succeeds in both the main thread and a second thread.
>
> I suspect that the problem has been exposed by the recently added
> non-blocking code in libssh2-0.15.
>
> To try to diagnose the problem, I built my test program with gcc 3.2
> instead of the Sun Studio 11 compiler and I used gdb to step
> through the
> libssh2-0.15-20070605 code. The problem occurs at line 308 of
> transport.c. The recv function is returning -1 but errno is 0, which
> should be impossible.
>
> The problem is that the global variable errno should not be accessed
> directly when multi-threaded. We should add -D_REENTRANT to
> CPPFLAGS in
> the Makefiles. That causes errno to be redefined in errno.h to be
> (*(___errno())), which is threadsafe.
>
> I made this change in my Makefiles and rebuilt the library. Now my
> application is able to use sftp in different threads.
>
> I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the configure script. I think
> this change should be made there, so that the configured Makefiles
> have
> the correct definition of CPPFLAGS.
>
> Would someone please make this change?
Will have to be someone with more knowledge then me, all the systems
I have access to always define errno as:
extern int * __error();
#define errno (* __error())
Jim
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