Re: Context parameter in public API

On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 00:04, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Right, but in this case we'd initialize a global data structure at
> startup time, based on the data in ~/.subversion/*, and then never
> modify that structure afterwards.

A GUI client might want a way to reread that, actually. But,
independently of that:

> So is thread-safety really an issue here?

It can be. If a library which has to be thread-safe wants to do
Subversion operations, it can't be sure that two instances of itself
don't do "startup time" stuff at the same time.

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Received on Sat Oct 12 06:47:00 2002