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=== Feature ===
 
=== Feature ===
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This [[../Bridge|bridge]] protects [[Uno/Term/Thread Unsafe|thread unsafe]] objects from being called by multiple threads concurrently. It does this by acquring a dedicated mutex before actually doing the call.
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This [[../Bridge|bridge]] protects [[Uno/Term/Thread Unsafe|thread unsafe]] objects from being called by multiple threads concurrently.  
  
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The purpose bridges behaves as follows,
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Only one thread at a time can enter a Unsafety Environment, an Unsafety Environment is entered, if any thread has one of the methods provided by the <code>Enterable</code> API on the stack.
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* entering the Unsafety Environment aquires the associated mutex, in case the mutex has already been acquired, the calling thread blocks until it has been released,
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* leaveing the Unsafety Environment releases the associated mutex,  
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* calling into the Unsafey Environment, leads to the invocation of the passed function, after acquiring the associated mutex,
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* calling out of the Unsafety Environment, leads to the invocation of the passed function, actually keeping the associated mutex acquired, therefor protecting any objects on the callers stack.
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=== Rationale ===
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=== API ===
 
=== API ===

Revision as of 12:41, 28 June 2006

state: draft
type: specification

Thread Unsafety Bridge

Feature

This bridge protects thread unsafe objects from being called by multiple threads concurrently.

Only one thread at a time can enter a Unsafety Environment, an Unsafety Environment is entered, if any thread has one of the methods provided by the Enterable API on the stack.

API

Purpose bridge named "unsafe".

Dependencies

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