From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-06-30T16:47:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03710] Re: Multithreaded/Embedded Ruby?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03708] Re: Multithreaded/Embedded Ruby?"
    on 00/06/30, "R. Hotaka" <hotaka@media.teu.ac.jp> writes:

|If a thread can read (but not write) the value of a variable defined in (or possesed by) 
|another thread, can we say that situation "thread safe"?

I guess something is thread safe, if and only if it's safe in ANY condition.
So, if the situation is designed to be so, it's thread safe, otherwise
it's happen to be safe in that particular occasion.

							matz.