libzypp  13.10.6
Libzypp and threads
Author
Michael Andres ma@su.nosp@m.se.d.nosp@m.e

Libzypp and threads

Libzypp is not thread safe.

Before we can think about using threads in libzypp, or even libzypp in threads, a bunch of components have to be fixed.

  • Logging as one one of the core components has to become threadsafe.
  • SmartPointer as one of the core patterns implementing resource control need to become threadsafe
  • ...more

Logging in threads

See Also
http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1539, http://www.pantheios.org/

Need to estimate performance impact when making the current zypp::log implementation threadsafe. Current implementation is based on STL streams with a custom linebuffer.