From: loats205@... (loats205)
Date: 2003-08-26T16:46:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Sockets and threads

>From: "Mark J. Reed" 
>Probably a dumb question, but here goes:
>
>If I have a TCPSocket object that is being used by two threads,
>one of which only reads from it while the other only writes to it,
>does access to the object need to be synchronized?  
>
>I know that access to the two directions of a Socket in Java
>are independent for this purpose, but wanted to check to see
>if the same was true in Ruby.
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Mark

Its the same, the only thing the 2 streams of a tcp socket really share is a
number. Theres no underlying dependence.