Erl Ports and Threads

[klacke@REDACTED]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:37:34PM +0600, Casper wrote:
> Hi Klacke,
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> Here I am not talking about simultaneous write() operations on a socket/pipe
> from the multiple external program. I am talking about multiple threads in
> one program.

I know, that's what you wrote.

> 
> Is single write() call, atomic or not?
> 

Not.


> If that's not thread safe, what's the best way to go for inter-operability?

Let the write routine take a lock on a mutex before
it writes and release the lock when the write (which must
be performed in a loop until everything is written) is
finished.

Read man pages for read/write and pthread_mutex_init, lock
and friends.


/klacke


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