Re: Context parameter in public API

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.

What's wrong with two instances reading?

(Subversion doesn't modify those files, it just reads them.)

Sorry, not being deliberately obtuse here, I'm just not seeing the
mechanism by which this *particular* instance of globality is
problematic...

?,
-K

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Received on Sat Oct 12 07:00:14 2002