Re: "Use them from only one thread at a time"
Re: "Use them from only one thread at a time"
- Subject: Re: "Use them from only one thread at a time"
- From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 16:56:00 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Thu, 19 May 2011 13:22:32 -0700, Jerry Krinock said:
>"Thread-Unsafe Classes. The following classes and functions are
>generally not thread-safe. In most cases, you can use these classes from
>any thread as long as you use them from only one thread at a time."
>
>I'm confused by the second sentence.
Indeed. Surely they don't mean that.
>Would it be correct to restate it
>like this…
>
>"In most cases, although you can allocate instances of these classes on
>any thread, each instance must receive messages only from the thread
>which allocated it."
I believe so. See also:
<http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-01-09.html>
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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