David Binger wrote: > > 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. Yet it's never been a significant problem in Webware.