mosquitto_lib_init thread-safe or only to be called once per process?

Hi Tommy,

You are correct, this does need clarifying! In fact mosquitto_lib_init
is not thread safe. I have updated the documentation to say this.

Thanks,

Roger

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Tommy Svensson
<email address hidden> wrote:
> New question #240923 on mosquitto:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/mosquitto/+question/240923
>
> Hi,
>
> I got a segmentation fault in mosquitto_lib_init when it was called simultaneously from two different threads. Guarding mosquitto_lib_init with a mutex made the fault go away.
>
> Now I wonder, is the mosquitto_lib_init to be called only once for each process? Or is to be called once for each thread, in which case it must be thread-safe, which it looks like it isn't. The docs says that mosquitto is thread-safe though.
>
> Can you please clarify!
>
> Kind regards,
> /Tommy
>
> Env: mosquitto v1.2.3 on Ubuntu 13.04
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So, now it is clear to me that the init isn't thread safe, but should I call it once per process or once on each thread using locking ?

Just once should be fine.