not-threaded.. stupid me.
It is not thread safe of course
Niki

Niki Ivanchev wrote:

>Thanks Helen.
>I am not fully aware of firebird internals. When I was trying port my
>apps (Java) running with embedded linux version
>i hit into this problem. So I decided to write a test case.
>Open 100 connections to a simple database, make select on each, make
>update, make delete, close connection.
>Of course I was using connection pool. On windows, everything is fine.
>On linux - crash.
>That's why I have made this descision
>As you have explained - libfbembed is not threaded, that's why I had
>this problem. I will rewrote the test case this evening to check again.
>Niki
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>>Hmm....I'm trying to process that one. Simply, libfbembed.so is
>>non-threading, so the question of multiple connections from a single
>>application doesn't arise. It's a genuine "direct-connect": if you are
>>connected, you are connected to a running server process. If you
>>disconnect, the server process goes away.
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>>You can run as many instances of libfbembed.so as you want, connecting to
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>>The Windows embedded *server* model is a Superserver variant, not a Classic
>>instance as the embedded *library* (libfbembed.so) is on Linux. The
>>limitation on having multiple instances of a Windows embedded server
>>application relates to the exclusive locking of the database by the first
>>process spawned by the Superserver. An embedded server is always the first
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>>I'm reliably informed that libfbclient.so can be used for multi-threading
>>connections to Fb 1.5 Classic servers on either Windows or Linux, though I
>>haven't tried it myself.
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