[Mono-dev] mono timer exception

[Sean Dague]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:15:07AM +0200, Robert Jordan wrote:
> Sean Dague wrote:
> > I read through the Timer code, and am starting to wonder if Timers
> > themselves aren't thread safe to manipulate, and if that is the crux of
> > our problem.
> 
> See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timers.timer.aspx
> 
> The class is not thread safe.

Ok, thanks.  That clarification helps a lot.  The MS implementation
appears to be thread safe (or at least has a much smaller race window)
than the Mono implementation.  We were previously treating the .Enabled
property as being thread safe, which is probably a huge source of grief.

Will get to fixing that in our source.  Thanks much.

     -Sean

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