[darcs-devel] [issue1774] darcs library is not thread-safe

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

New submission from Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li>:

The darcs code makes use of the current working directory, a process-
level  global. This is not thread safe, either for concurrent calls to 
the darcs library itself on different threads, or for concurrent use of 
CWD by a non-darcs thread at the same time as darcs.

The obvious code fix is to use absolute paths anyway, but this 
apparently has a significant performance penalty (see discussion on 
patch127).

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messages: 10347
nosy: darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, ganesh, kowey, mornfall
priority: urgent
status: need-action
title: darcs library is not thread-safe
topic: LibraryDesign

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