Sockets and threads

[Mark J. Reed]

Probably a dumb question, but here goes:

If I have a TCPSocket object that is being used by two threads,
one of which only reads from it while the other only writes to it,
does access to the object need to be synchronized?

I know that access to the two directions of a Socket in Java
are independent for this purpose, but wanted to check to see
if the same was true in Ruby.

Thanks!

-Mark

[loats205]

>From: "Mark J. Reed"

>Probably a dumb question, but here goes:
>
>If I have a TCPSocket object that is being used by two threads,
>one of which only reads from it while the other only writes to it,
>does access to the object need to be synchronized?
>
>I know that access to the two directions of a Socket in Java
>are independent for this purpose, but wanted to check to see
>if the same was true in Ruby.
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Mark

Its the same, the only thing the 2 streams of a tcp socket really share is a
number. Theres no underlying dependence.