--- Jeffrey E Care <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on > 10/12/2005 07:50:04 AM: [SNIP] > > to an extent <parallel> is the most prone to race > conditions, as it is > > running stuff in the same project. a subant > running in parallel is > > likely to share much less, just a FileUtils > instance and maybe some > > references handed down. > > Is it same to assume that we'll be running against > JDK 1.2 or greater? If > so we could possibly convert FileUtils (or any other > class with a static > "getInstance" singleton accessor) to use > ThreadLocal.
To interject, I can't recall ever having seen anything in FileUtils specifically that would not be thread-safe. There is no instance data and no static data is modified after class initialization. -Matt __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]