[OTR-dev] Will libotr4 be thread safe?

Rob Smits rdfsmits at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Wed May 2 18:08:16 EDT 2012


Hey,

In general libotr is *not* thread-safe. The exception is a very small  
portion that was added for asynchronous key generation (see  
otrl_privkey_generate*). Some of these methods allow you to call them  
from a background thread to avoid blocking the entire GUI.

Regards,
Rob Smits


Quoting Chris Ballinger <chrisballinger at gmail.com>:

> I am considering writing an easy to use Objective-C wrapper API around
> libotr and wasn't sure if I should wait until libotr4 is released, and
> whether or not it will be thread safe.
>
> Thanks!
>
> p.s. have you guys considered moving the project to github?
>







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