Check for thread safety

otrv4 / libotr-ng

A new implementation of OTR with support for version 4. This is a mirror of https://bugs.otr.im/otrv4/libotr-ng

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Check for thread safety #115

Closed claucece closed 5 years ago

claucece commented 6 years ago

Why

A library has to be secure in the ways it handles threads.

Tasks

[ ] Check that is thread safe

olabini commented 5 years ago

I'll take a look and investigate this.

olabini commented 5 years ago

Specifically, this relates to identifying and documenting what can be safely modified from more than one thread, and what can not. In general, we don't have to be thread safe - we can just make sure that the client knows that they are in charge of synchronizing.