On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Sashan Govender <sash...@gmail.com> 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 *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
