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From: Heinrich du Toit <hdutoit@tlabs.ac.za>
Subject: multi threaded file access
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 13:39:29 +0200
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Hello

I have a tcp/ip server which is offcourse multi threaded :-)

Is it safe to have to threads access the same file descriptor at the 
same time?
Or should I put a mutex over the file descriptor?

Thanks for your help
-Heinrich