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Elizabeth Mattijsen
Date:
July 30, 2002 06:50
Subject:
Re: Thread::Use - use a module inside a thread only
Message ID:
4.2.0.58.20020730154810.024d2880@mickey.dijkmat.nl
At 03:46 PM 7/30/02 +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote:
>>In case it's not clear - I agree that this is the correct approach.
>>It's just that it's hard to do when part of what you're trying to clone
>>is an opaque data structure supplied by a third party library that wasn't
>>expecting to be cloned.
>Some things cannot be cloned, perhaps it should just close the file for 
>the thread, or something, or share the structure between the threads but 
>protect it with a mutex?

I would just close it.  Especially with stuff such as gzip, you're never 
going to get the mutex right from a data consistency point of view...


Liz


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