On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Quincey Morris <[email protected] > wrote:
> On May 4, 2010, at 22:32, Ken Ferry wrote: > > > Jens is exactly right. > > > > If you are going to use the delegate, you must make your own instance of > NSFileManager. Clearly - if you did that with the shared manager, you and > other threads would fight over it. > > > > NSFileManager is otherwise threadsafe. There's an open bug to rev the > docs. > > > > -Ken > > Sorry if I'm being dense, but I seem to keep getting an ambiguous answer to > the real question. :) I'm not concerned with the issue of delegates. My question is whether a > single (delegate-less) instance of NSFileManager can be used simultaneously > from multiple threads, or whether each thread needs a separate instance to > prevent conflicts but multiple instances don't conflict with each other > though they share the filesystem. Both possibilities are a kind of thread > safety. > You can use a single instance from multiple threads, generally the shared one. Delegates are the only reason the doc says anything other than "go nuts". This is what both Jens and I were trying to say. -Ken Cocoa Frameworks > > I thought "thread-safe" meant the former. Jens and some historical > commentary said the latter for NSFileManager. You just said "thread-safe", > but I'm not sure *which* thread-safe you meant -- the former or the latter. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kenferry%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
