On Monday 22 May 2006 02:33, Julio Kriger wrote:
> Hi!
> I have program that launch 4 threads, each thread open a SCTP connection to
> another PC. And a weird bug present (actually is a segmentation fault).
> Here is some code;
>
>     sctpInstance = SCTP_registerInstance(cp->sourcePort, inputStreams,
> outputStreams, noOfLocalAddresses, localAddressList, LLServerEchoUlp);
>
>         //sleep(5);
>
>         SCTP_associate(sctpInstance, outputStreams, destinationAddress,
> cp->destPort, clientParamIndex);
>
> If I don't put the "sleep", everyhing works good. But ...
>
> If I put the "sleep" for 10 seconds (on each thread) I get a core dump:

This looks like a thread-safety problem. Check whether your mutex locking is
okay. That is, do you call sctp_extendedEventLoop() with the correct locking
functions and do you obtain the mutex before you call any sctplib function?

The best recommendation when using multiple threads is to use the socket API
library. Unlike the sctplib, the socket API library is thread-safe. For
further details on how to get your sctplib programs thread-safe, you can also
have a look into the socket API sources, especially sctpsocketmaster.cc.


Best regards
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