Ah, I see, good to know.
Jon
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:39 PM, John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Jon Blower wrote:
>> So presumably if you use the NetCDF file cache, you have to do the
>> synchronization yourself, since you might be transparently sharing
>> file handles? That's an aspect of the cache that hadn't occurred to
>> me before...
>
> The way that the cache is designed to work is that you get back a NetcdfFile
> object, which should then used only in a single thread so you dont need
> synchronization ("thread-confinement"), such as to answer a single request in
> a server. Until you release that NetcdfFile object, no one else can get it
> from the cache. If another request is made for that same NetcdfFile while its
> locked, a new NetcdfFile is opened.
>
> And of course, the cache itself is thread-safe. So if you use it properly,
> you never have to do synchronization yourself.
>
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