Ah I understand, that makes sense. Thanks. On 2009-12-14, at 9:09 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
> > On Dec 14, 2009, at 9:07 PM, PCWiz wrote: > >> So to make it clear, I invoke the method as an NSInvocationOperation then in >> the method I do this whenever I need to access the mutable dictionary: >> >> - (void)doResourceHungryTask { >> ... >> @synchronized (myDictionary) { >> [myDictionary setObject:anObject forKey:@"testKey"]; >> } >> } >> >> Is that correct? > > You must lock and unlock the dictionary **every** time you read from or write > to it, not just that one time. Otherwise one thread could access it at the > same time as another thread is writing to it, and that would not be good. > > Nick Zitzmann > <http://www.chronosnet.com/> > > > _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com