[Asterisk-Dev] thread-safe and reentrant functions

[Gene Kochanowsky]

I would recommend it because it will force you to rigorously architect the application and would make it easier for others to understand Asterisks architecture by just examining the code. Also I think the functionality of Asterisk is a natural for multiple-inheritance. I also think that it would allow you to create classes for threading and thread safe code that was easily maintainable across the entire application from a few classes. It would make porting to other platforms a great deal easier since you could also layer Asterisk. And lastly, I think it would allow you to architect Asterisk to make it a great deal more extensible than it is now. Design by functional decomposition is okay, but doesn't compare to designing with objects.

Gene 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:critch at basesys.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:38 PM
To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Dev] thread-safe and reentrant functions


On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 11:04, Gene Kochanowsky wrote:
> As long as people are making requests regarding the Asterisk code
> base, I would like to see asterisk converted to an object oriented
> application.

Can you give a compelling answer as to why? At least the message that
started the thread is working towards reduced number of bugs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angel Carpintero [mailto:acp at e-group.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 7:52 AM
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] thread-safe and reentrant functions
> 
> 
> 
>  Hi all , 
> 
>    I was looking at the source code and i found some not reentrant functions 
>  like gethostbyname() . I guess that makes asterisk not thread-safe , and it should
>  be solved . However i have test asterisk and seems to be quite *stable* ,
>   
>  Should it be patched with reentrant functions , for instance gethostbyname_r() ?
> 
>  Feel free to give your commments/opinios.
> 
>  Cheers.
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>

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