[kepler-dev] Can "stop" interrupt "initialize()"

[Edward A. Lee]

At 11:22 AM 2/1/2006 -0600, Kevin Ruland wrote:
>1) Should CompositeActor release the read-lock prior to making the open
>call to the director's preinitialize()?

This would have to be done very carefully.
If you don't hold a read lock, then the structure of the model
can change at any time.  If you are iterating through a list of actors
to preinitialize them, for example, and the list of actors changes
while you are iterating through it, you could get into trouble.

The "right" way to mutate the model is by queueing a ChangeRequest.

Edward


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