>>>>> Matthew Krenzer writes:
Matthew> At this point I am assuming Tnm is not thread safe.
Correct. I have some more thread safety patches that are however not
yet in the CVS version.
Matthew> Also, a few of the segfaults where located in TCL proper - so
Matthew> is it really thread safe? or is it the way it interfaces
Matthew> with Tnm that caused the fault? Anyway . . .
A non-thread-safe extension can cause your program to crash at almost
arbitrary places, almost anytime. And right now, most extensions are
not thread-safe so using them in a multi-threaded application is
likely to make your application instable.
/js
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