About exceptions. Exceptions messages in .NET depends on locale, so if you're
going to run your soft in various countries and want to compare exception's
message strings you'll have to compare with all localized messages (or try
to workaround with changing CurrentUICulture of exception handling
This approach will not work. You may not get an exception, you may
just end up looping forever inside the dictionary. This is not a
theoretical issue, it is something which does happen in the wild when
you mutate a dictionary while iterating it.
Alan
On 13 February 2013 16:08, edward.harvey.mono
From: Alan [mailto:alan.mcgov...@gmail.com]
This approach will not work. You may not get an exception, you may
just end up looping forever inside the dictionary. This is not a
theoretical issue, it is something which does happen in the wild when
you mutate a dictionary while iterating it.
Edward - build a queue of updates, have the iterating thread review the
queue at the end of an iteration, then have the iterating thread do the
updates and start anther iteration.
Bob Davies
___
Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com
You could do it with a ConcurrentDictionary and a 'serial' as you've
described. ConcurrentDictionary makes it safe for you to read and
write simultaenously, the serial lets you bail out of your iteration
when the dictionary is modified.
Another alternative is to clone the entire dictionary every
