[erlang-questions] multi-threaded woes

Vlad Dumitrescu vladdu55@REDACTED
Mon Sep 18 11:00:05 CEST 2006


On 9/18/06, Bob Cowdery <Bob.Cowdery@REDACTED> wrote:
> I am having some trouble getting two C nodes which are both clients and servers to connect both ways and not sure of the rules here.
   ...snip...
> I do need these nodes to be servers as multiple nodes will connect to them and I will need to spawn a thread for each.

Hi,

I don't know what kind of application you work on, so this may be way
off. Also, I hope I understood your question.

If you want to write C nodes that are multithreaded, you will have to
fight the same problems any multithreaded C application has and that
Erlang solves. C nodes are regular C programs, they can talk to Erlang
nodes but have no inherent better multithreading capabilities.

An alternative approach (a little more Erlang-ish) would be to move
the connection handling to a proper Erlang node and let only that node
talk to the C node. This way the C part will be single-threaded (but
maybe will have to be able to handle several sessions) and the messy
threaded stuff is handled on the Erlang side.

Hope this helps.
best regards,
Vlad



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