Re: [igraph] Multi-threading and igraph

[Gábor Csárdi]

Hi Tom,

indeed, the error handling is not thread-safe in igraph. I guess it
would not be too hard to make it thread-safe, but I am not an expert
on this. Could you recommend some good documentation on writing
thread-safe libraries?

Thanks,
Gabor

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Thomas Gorochowski
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am attempting to use OpenMP for some statistical sampling. When using 
> igraph functions within a parallel block I have noticed errors occur such as 
> the following:
>
> corrupt finally stack, popping 2 elements when only 1 left
> Assertion failed: (no>=0), function IGRAPH_FINALLY_REAL, file error.c, line 
> 126.
> Abort trap
>
> I'm assuming that igraph has not been written with multi-threading in mind, 
> however, was wondering if there are any plans to make the library thread-safe 
> in the near future? I'd ideally not like to fork processes as some data is 
> required to be shared and passing that via messages is never much fun!
>
> Thank for a great library and keep up the good work.
>
> Tom.
>
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