> On 26 Jul 2016, at 5:37 AM, Daniel Stenmark <dstenm...@opentable.com> wrote: > > 2. Can I read from a single file using two NSFileHandles on two threads at > the same time? > > Why would you need to do that in the first place? Unless you’re reading a > single byte at a time, it sounds like a sure-fire way to get corrupted data, > regardless of whether you’re using NSFileHandle or good old POSIX methods. I > don’t think there’s inherently dangerous about the operation itself, but the > resulting data buffers are probably going to be gibberish.
Aren’t accesses to the file system serialised anyway? Use multiple threads to read a single file isn’t going to gain you anything, even if there wasn’t this coherency issue. —Graham _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
