[ENet-discuss] Using ENet in multithread application

[Marcin Zajączkowski]

Hi,

I know ENet for some time and I used it for some purposes, but recently 
I came across task to adopt ENet for multithread application.
With current ENet version I think I could do this using one thread to 
call enet_host_service() which create new thread on connect and pass on 
data on receive new packet and another threads (created by main thread) 
which respond on that data and if needed send reply by call 
enet_peer_send() (every thread can call it if needed).
Unfortunately this makes few problems. Maybe there is another solution 
to do this?

I read in message from October 2003 that there are plans for making ENet 
more thread supporting. Is there any guidelines for this?
In my opinion ability to call enet_host_service(peer/socket) (or 
something similar) by thread to wait only for messages (packets) concern 
only detailed socket would be very usefull. In that mode (normal mode 
should be also available during network initialize) main thread (e.g. 
enet_host_service(manage_events) ) would be only reliable for control 
messages and create/remove other threads which would wait for data only 
meant for them.

Regards
Marcin