Re: Windows threads with libssh

[Alberto Garcia <agarciaillera@xxxxxxxxx>]

What is the equivalent of pthread that can be used in windows?

Thank you

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 12:55 AM Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:21:24 CET Alberto Garcia wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've read the info at
> http://api.libssh.org/master/libssh_tutor_threads.html
> > .
> >
> > I'm writing a program that uses libssh and implements a shell and SOCKS
> > capabiliities(SSH_CHANNEL_DIRECT_TCPIP).
> >
> > When using ssh -D .... it does create one channel for the shell which I
> run
> > under one thread and one channel per every SOCKS connection which is
> > handled in another thread. I'm using std::thread.
> >
> > Every channel is under the same session and as I said they are handled in
> > different threads. If as the link says "You cannot use a single session
> (or
> > channels for a single session) in several threads at the same time", what
> > is the proper way to handled this?
>
> You can create a thread for one session. All channels derived from that
> session need to be handled in the same thread.
>
> If you want do use multiple threads for channels derived form one session
> you
> would need a mutex and lock it for each channel access. I guess that will
> everything much slower ...
>
>
>         Andreas
>
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