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Newbie Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 1

As it says in the title, I'm curious how thread safe zMUD is. Right now, I can't actually check whether it crashes on a threaded API call, so I'm asking here.

Thanks in advance for replies,
Mudguy.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:18 pm

zMUD is very thread *unsafe*. Not sure what kind of "threaded API call" you are talking about, but if you mean you are planning to call the zMUD COM API from within a thread, then all bets are off I'm afraid, just like with most applications. But it really depends upon exactly what you are trying to do. Certainly doing any sort of memory writing, like creating a trigger or alias is not thread safe and you'd need to ensure that only one thing was writing to memory at a time. But if you are just doing read operations, then it should be safe.