[Gdal-dev] multiple threads - VSIMemFileSystemHandler and nCacheUsed

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 1/11/06, list67 at netscape.net <list67 at netscape.net> wrote:
> Frank,
>
> The thread checker is reporting a "read/write data race" for the nCacheUsed variable, with the two sections of code being the GDALRasterBlock destructor and the GDALRasterBlock::Internalize() member function.  It looks like the GDALRasterBlock::Internalize has a mutex lock, but the destructor does not.

Mike,

Right, but as I mentioned it doesn't really matter if the
nCacheUsed readers get an old value since at worst
the cache flushes a block too soon, or too late.  Nothing
serious.

Best regards,

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