From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA25483; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:12:45 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24973 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:12:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i85FCfQ1028668 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:12:43 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp210-32.lns2.syd3.internode.on.net [203.122.210.32]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i85FCY4Y007957; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 00:42:35 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unix module and threads From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: Markus Mottl Cc: Janne Hellsten , caml-list In-Reply-To: <20040905134246.GA8829@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> References: <413AC784.4010007@hybrid.fi> <20040905134246.GA8829@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1094397153.3352.640.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 06 Sep 2004 01:12:33 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 413B2CE9.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 threads:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 fragile:01 9660:01 glebe:01 nsw:01 snail:02 mottl:02 threaded:02 unix:02 checkout:02 module:03 2037:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 23:42, Markus Mottl wrote: > Always use absolute paths to avoid problems in multi-threaded contexts. I go so far as to suggest relative paths be resolved into absolute ones ASAP in almost all contexts: even a correct singly threaded program using relative paths is likely to be fragile (meaning the correctness property is easy to clobber with small changes). -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners