threads and sleep?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Christopher Subich <spam.csubich+block at block.subich.spam.com> (CS) wrote:

>CS> Hrm... this would suggest the possibility of designing a metaclass,
>CS> perhaps, that would ensure synchronous access to an object.  Perhaps "wrap"
>CS> the class in another, that gets and releases a mutex on any external
>CS> get/set access (except, possibly, for a specified list of "asynchronous"
>CS> data members and methods).

Sometimes that's not enough, because you may have to synchronise access to
a couple of objects, or to multiple operations on some object(s). The
system can't know the required granularity of locking, only the application
programmer knows that.
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