M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>  Andy Dustman wrote:
>  >...
>  > And perhaps the point needs to be made that "share" means "two threads
>  > using the same resource without a mutex". With a mutex, and the right user
>  > locking code, anything ought to be shareable.
>  
>  Hmm, not sure about that one: the mutex could not be coarse grained
>  enough to lock out potential problems ;-) Anyway, I'll add a note
>  about the code "being thread safe all by itself".

Even with a mutex, the MSFT SQL Server connector cannot be used from a
different thread. If a thread creates a connection, then that is the
only thread that can use it.

So: the doc shouldn't simply say that a mutex can solve the threading
issues. It could/should reflect one of three possibilities: fully thread
safe, usuable across threads with a mutex, not usable across threads.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/