From: Daniel Andor <da209@cam.ac.uk>
To: Janne Hellsten <janne@hybrid.fi>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unix module and threads
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 14:57:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409051457.44760.da209@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040905134246.GA8829@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at>
On Sunday 05 September 2004 2:42 pm, Markus Mottl wrote:
> 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].
If you absolutely must use chdir, perhaps you could use a mutex (a `path'
mutex, if you like) to control modification of the process working directory?
D
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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
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 [this message]
2004-09-05 15:12 ` skaller
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