Przemyslaw Czerpak-2 wrote:
>
> Nice to see your messages again.
>
I am always lurking out here. Nice to see you are still aggressively
involved in Harbour. I assume you are still disconnected from xHarbour
based upon our communications a year ago (or so).
Przemyslaw Czerpak-2 wrote:
>
>
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Alex Strickland wrote:
Hi Alex,
> From Pritpals message about xbase++ behaviour dated 2008/09/17 01:12 AM:
> Exchanging alias names between work spaces always involves a virtual work
> space, the Zero space. Function DbRelease() releases the alias name of a
> work area in the
Przemyslaw Czerpak wrote:
I'll create code to test the relations and lock behavior in released
workarea.
From Pritpals message about xbase++ behaviour dated 2008/09/17 01:12 AM:
Exchanging alias names between work spaces always involves a virtual work
space, the Zero space. Function DbRelease
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Angel Pais wrote:
Hi Angel,
> First of all I must say you are right, this code isn't thread safe:
> lInUse := ! lInUse
> But i've also said its only a simplification.
> In a real program this code:
> 1- goes inside a sync method of a class
> 2- the logical var does not exit
>
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Pritpal Bedi wrote:
Hi Pritpal,
> > why should I as a Xbase++ developer help a competitor to advance its
> > product???
> > And why do you ask for our help in the Xbase++ generic newsgroup? In my
> Please do not understand me wrong.
Sorry, I was wrong. I hope that you aske
Przemyslaw Czerpak-2 wrote:
>
> In this code we have:
>lInUse := ! lInUse
> To make this code MT safe the above line has to be one atomic
> operation in xBase++. Is it true?
>
This is not true in Xbase++. Each variable access (read and write) is
serialized independently which guarantees v
Hi Przemek
First of all I must say you are right, this code isn't thread safe:
lInUse := ! lInUse
But i've also said its only a simplification.
In a real program this code:
1- goes inside a sync method of a class
2- the logical var does not exit
3- the array is a var of the class
4- the class is
Przemek
> why should I as a Xbase++ developer help a competitor to advance its
> product???
> And why do you ask for our help in the Xbase++ generic newsgroup? In my
Please do not understand me wrong.
I know you have implemented far superior MT design than
Xbase++, I swear. My point was to gat
