<html> <head> <title>Support for multiple threads in TSE3</title> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff text=#000000> <table width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 border=0 bgcolor=#000000><tr><td> <table width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 border=0><tr><td valign=center bgcolor=#c8d559> <table width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr> <td align=left width=30%><b> TSE3 documentation<b></td> <td align=center width=30%>Version 0.2.7</td> <td align=right width=30%> <a href="index.html"><b>Index</b></a> <a href="api/index.html">API</a> <a href="Version.html">Version</a> <a href="Structure.html">Structure</a> </td> </tr></table> </td></tr></table> </td></tr></table> <h1>Support for multiple threads in TSE3</h1> <p> The TSE3 library provides support for multi-threaded applications and guards its internal data structures against concurrent access by more than one thread. <p> It is possible to disable this support by configuring the code with the <code>--without-mutex</code> configure flag. <p> The threading support is implemented in the <code>tse3/Mutex.h</code> header file. <p> Even if the multi-threading support is enabled (as per default) the library will not be thread-safe unless you supply a platform-specific implementation of a <i>mutex</i> (which is a data structure used to prevent concurrent access to critical sections of code). You do this by providing a subclass of the <code>TSE3::Impl::MutexImpl</code> class and providing it to the TSE3 library (using the <code>TSE3::Impl::Mutex</code> class). <p> The KDOC documentation contains clear details on how to do this (look at the MutexImpl and Mutex class. If you have built the TSE3 documentation (see <a href="KDOC.html">here</a> for details) then the following links will take you directly to the documentation: <ul> <li><a href="api/TSE3__Impl__MutexImpl.html">MutexImpl</a> <li><a href="api/TSE3__Impl__Mutex.html">Mutex</a> </ul> <body bgcolor=#ffffff text=#000000> <table width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 border=0 bgcolor=#000000><tr><td> <table width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 border=0><tr><td valign=center bgcolor=#c8d559> <table width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr> <td align=left width=30%> © Pete Goodliffe, 2001-2003</td> <td align=center width=30%><a href="Copyright.html">Copyright</a></td> <td align=right width=30%><a href="Psalm150.html">Psalm 150</a> </td> </tr></table> </td></tr></table> </td></tr></table> </body> </html>