On Apr 30, 2005, at 10:01 PM, Mike Orr wrote: > > Of course, the Publisher might be thread-safe and the application not. > But I'm not sure that's our responsibility, or what to do if it is. > There could be an .is_thread_safe on the top-level Directory, but I'm > not sure that's the best way to go about it. We certainly shouldn't > recursively check all Directories because some might not be > Directories at all and others might be undiscoverable by normal means. > I think in terms of the application writer being the sysadmin himself > and thus knowing This is just the beginning of the extra risk your application takes on when you decide to run it in multiple threads.