Accessing private data in a NIF C module

[zambal]

Thanks for the info. So using NIF is a bit dangerous indeed ;-) but I
guess it's mainly intended for small side-effect free functions.

-
vincent

On 14 dec, 12:19, Sverker Eriksson <sver...@REDACTED> wrote:
> zambal wrote:
> > I could not found any information about if one needs to do any manual
> > locking when accessing data via enif_get_data(env) in an exported NIF
> > function. Does anybody know if this is needed?
>
> Yes, you need to do your own locking on any data structures that you
> introduce yourself and access either through enif_get_data() or static
> variables. The callbacks load, reload, upgrade and unload are however
> thread safe.
>
> I will add more about this in the erl_nif documentation for next release.
>
> /Sverker, Erlang/OTP Ericsson
>
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