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Re: Confused about threads



At 04:03 PM 2/14/01 -0500, Jim Malcolm wrote:
>All
>
>I'm confused about threads.  I have a thread library but I'm trying to
>build a single threaded 2.0.7 slapd.  My configure command is:
>
>./configure --prefix=/usr/local --libdir=/usr/local/lib \
>        --includedir=/usr/local/include \
>        --without-threads --with-ldbm-api=gdbm --with-ldbm-type=hash
>
>I wrote a program that binds, does an asynchronous search, sleeps for 5
>seconds, then does an ldap_first_entry, ldap_next_entry loop to read the
>results and finally unbind.  I reasoned that if the server were single
>threaded and I started two of these programs, the second would have to
>wait until the first completed before connecting, etc.
>
>It doesn't appear to work that way.  Both programs seem to run at the
>same time (closer to 5+ seconds rather than 10+ seconds).  So ... did I
>get threads in my slapd anyway or is my experiment incorrect?

Your assumptions are wrong.

Kurt