At 03:46 PM 7/30/02 +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: >>In case it's not clear - I agree that this is the correct approach. >>It's just that it's hard to do when part of what you're trying to clone >>is an opaque data structure supplied by a third party library that wasn't >>expecting to be cloned. >Some things cannot be cloned, perhaps it should just close the file for >the thread, or something, or share the structure between the threads but >protect it with a mutex?
I would just close it. Especially with stuff such as gzip, you're never going to get the mutex right from a data consistency point of view... Liz
