Multithreading Question

OmegaGames

Hi, I have a question on PhotonServer's PeerBase class and multithreading. Is it safe to start a short-lifetime thread that will access the send event and disconnect methods of the PeerBase without a lock or am I required to use the lock below. What sort of issues will I run into for the short duration of the lock and is it possible I could deadlock with something under the hood?

Any information on how I should go about starting this thread would be great. I don't want to halt execution by Sleeping on the main thread. The reason I'm sleeping though is if I don't sleep it seems to disconnect me before my client can receive the event. This may be because I stop polling the listener for events after disconnection; I don't really want to rewrite that client side.

So is there any other way to handle this, is this code below the recommended or do I not need to lock at all?

More information: This thread is being created and started in the constructor for a PeerBase instance.

[code2=csharp]private void HandleNoLoginServer()
{
//'this' is an instance of PeerBase
lock (this)
{
//Send an event
//Send another event
}
Thread.Sleep(5000);
lock (this)
{
this.Disconnect();
}
}[/code2]

chvetsov

Hi, OmegaGames

it is public interface of PeerBase is thread-safe, you may use it from different threads

OmegaGames

Thank you for the answer.

This means I do not need to lock and, for future reference, don't need to worry about asynchronously calling SendEvent(...) and etc at the same time from different threads causing problems?

chvetsov

yes, you do not need to lock and do not need to worry