On May 4, 2010, at 22:32, Ken Ferry wrote: > Jens is exactly right. > > If you are going to use the delegate, you must make your own instance of > NSFileManager. Clearly - if you did that with the shared manager, you and > other threads would fight over it. > > NSFileManager is otherwise threadsafe. There's an open bug to rev the docs. > > -Ken
Sorry if I'm being dense, but I seem to keep getting an ambiguous answer to the real question. :) I'm not concerned with the issue of delegates. My question is whether a single (delegate-less) instance of NSFileManager can be used simultaneously from multiple threads, or whether each thread needs a separate instance to prevent conflicts but multiple instances don't conflict with each other though they share the filesystem. Both possibilities are a kind of thread safety. I thought "thread-safe" meant the former. Jens and some historical commentary said the latter for NSFileManager. You just said "thread-safe", but I'm not sure *which* thread-safe you meant -- the former or the latter. _______________________________________________ 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
