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Subject: Re: Multitasking and containers
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> [ I don't know if ARM 2005 permits mutable implementations of read
> operations on the containers. I suppose it does, so the need to lock upon
> read. ]

Yes, some read operations mutate the container temporarily.  That's why the
user needs to always synchronize access to the container (even for read
operations) if the container can be accessed by several tasks.