RE: Usage of Tinymail by Multiple Applications

[<Dirk-Jan Binnema nokia com>]

Hi GM,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tinymail-devel-list-bounces gnome org 
> [mailto:tinymail-devel-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of 
> ext Maheswari Govindaraju
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:52
> To: tinymail-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Usage of Tinymail by Multiple Applications
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> One basic doubt.
> 
> Could somebody clarify regarding the access of Tinymail by 
> multiple applications.
> From the implementation perspective, Tinymail seems to do a 
> mutex lock/unlock before every folder access. 
> So can Multiple applications access a specific folder simultaneously?
> Or can multiple applications use Tinymail functionalities?
> 
> Please advise. I couldn't find any documentation in Tinymail 
> site regarding these points. 

Mutexes are per-process (per application), so other applications
don't have to care about that. However, it would not be a very
good idea to have two processes writing summary files at the
same time... 

Best wishes,
Dirk.