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Subject: RE: ca_flush_io and threads
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:01:37 +0000
From: Dirk Zimoch [mailto:[email protected]]
> If you have "third party" threads that have to work with CA, e.g. call
> ca_flush_io(), it is necessary that they join the main CA context.
> Otherwise they will start their own unrelated context.
> 
> Get a context handle from the main thread with ca_current_context()
> after calling ca_context_create(). Then in your third party thread,
> call ca_attach_context() with that context handle.

Aha!  Thank you, that solves another problem I was seeing...

Didn't realise there was an associated context, but I see it now in the documentation.

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References:
ca_flush_io and threads michael.abbott
Re: ca_flush_io and threads Dirk Zimoch

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