Sean, A race condition is as stated in one of my previous posts.
And I quote again... If thread one, is running and it checked the condition session.flag is true and while halfway through that check, the variable is changed it is going to cause a few problems. If for instance I have a serious of variables and while I need to use those variables, and whil reading them in and they change, the results are going to be unexpected dat results. On 4/16/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/15/07, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <cfset application.flag = true /> > > > > no on its own that can not cause a race condition, but if somewhere else > > there is a read on that variable somewhere then that will cause a race > > condition. > > Wrong. > > Code can read that variable to its heart's content all over the > application without a race condition. > > > Now as this debate is being discussed because of a CFC inside of a > session > > scope, there is an extremely high chance that a race condtion is going > to > > occur, so as Ben says lock it. > > Not necessarily true. You can have a bean in session scope and never > need to lock it. If the operations are *atomic*. > > You are just simply refusing to listen to what people are telling you > and you aren't reading the documents closely enough. I don't think you > actually understand what a race condition is...? > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275291 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
