[Dovecot] Is Dovecot SMP and thread-safe?

[Stephen Kurzeja]

That would resolve the UID the same each time, even though incorrectly.
So it would result in a more systematic error rather than the 
intermittent issue Josh is having I would say.

Steve

Dan Stromberg wrote:

>Not to discount the SMP hypothesis, but do you possibly have a password
>database that uses uid's > 65535?
>
>If there's some application in the chain that is assuming uid's should
>be a short, and another app in the chain assumes that uid's should be an
>int...  Then when mapping int to short, you might lose the upper bits -
>which should only matter for uid's >= 65536.
>
>On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:14 -0800, Josh Burley wrote:
>  
>
>>We *are* on an SMP machine...
>>
>>Peter Franck wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Josh´s problem report reminds me of other multi-CPU issues.
>>>Just a guess,
>>>Peter
>>>      
>>>