From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-05-04T05:10:03+09:00
Subject: Re: concurrency question

On May 3, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Trish Ball wrote:

> I am new to concurrency issues, and am working with DRb (also new to
> this).  My DRb class assigns a value to an instance variable that will
> be accessed by my client.  Is there a possibility with a concurrency
> issue if the client tries the access that variable when it is being
> assigned.

No.

> @list = LabelList.new(@label_list)
>
> Will I need a mutex around this?

It will see either the old value or the new value.  Nothing will  
break otherwise.

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