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Re: 960116: netcdf 2.4b6 thread safe?

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  • Subject: Re: 960116: netcdf 2.4b6 thread safe?
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:34:58 -0700
>From: address@hidden (Charlie Martin)
>Organization: NCAR/ATD
>Keywords: 199601170043.AA27128 netCDF thread

Hi Charlie,

> I'm currently running netcdf v2.4beta6. Due
> to strange crashes, I wonder if it is thread
> safe? Sure would be nice if it were! :>)

It's definitely not thread-safe, because the underlying I/O is not
thread-safe, and there is no locking/unlocking of data structures that would
be shared by concurrent threads.

> BTW, this is on Solaris 2.4 for X86. I've tested
> non-threaded netcdf C++ code - works great so far.
> You have really improved the C++ interface.

Thanks, Dan Schmitt is responsible for some of the improvements.

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