From: Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>
To: Janne Hellsten <janne@hybrid.fi>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unix module and threads
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:42:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040905134246.GA8829@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <413AC784.4010007@hybrid.fi>
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004, Janne Hellsten wrote:
> I wonder what happens if I call [Unix.chdir foo] from two different
> threads, with two different directories?
This is not thread-safe: threads share the current working directory of
the process.
> After chdir I typicall call [Unix.system] and/or
> [Unix.open_process_full] and expect the directory to be the one just
> previously set with [Unix.chdir].
>
> I would like to parallelize a simple building tool that I've written,
> but I'm a bit worried if things will mysteriously break with the
> introduction of multi-threaded control.
Always use absolute paths to avoid problems in multi-threaded contexts.
Regards,
Markus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-05 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-05 8:00 Janne Hellsten
2004-09-05 13:32 ` David Brown
2004-09-05 13:42 ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2004-09-05 13:53 ` Janne Hellsten
2004-09-05 15:27 ` skaller
2004-09-06 9:07 ` Keith Wansbrough
2004-09-05 13:57 ` Daniel Andor
2004-09-05 15:12 ` skaller
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