[erlang-questions] NIF ErlNifEnv thread safety?

[Sverker Eriksson]

On 04/23/2015 05:54 PM, Daniel Goertzen wrote:
> Can multiple threads safely use the same process-independent 
> ErlNifEnv?  The documentation isn't clear to me.  From 
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html ...
>
> "Threads and concurrency
>
> A NIF is thread-safe without any explicit synchronization as long as 
> it acts as a pure function and only reads the supplied arguments. As 
> soon as you write towards a shared state either through static 
> variables or enif_priv_data you need to supply your own explicit 
> synchronization. This includes terms in process independent 
> environments that are shared between threads. Resource objects will 
> also require synchronization if you treat them as mutable."
>
>
  Would it be clearer if "terms in" was removed from the third sentence:

"This includes process independent environments that are shared between 
threads."


/Sverker, Erlang/OTP
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