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<a name="intrusive.thread_safety"></a><a class="link" href="thread_safety.html" title="Thread safety guarantees">Thread safety guarantees</a>
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Intrusive containers have thread safety guarantees similar to STL containers.
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Several threads having read or write access to different instances is safe
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as long as inserted objects are different.
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Concurrent read-only access to the same container is safe.
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Other functions, like checking if an object is already inserted in a container
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using the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">is_linked</span><span class="special">()</span></code>
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member of safe hooks, constitute read access on the container without having
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Since the same object can be inserted in several containers at the same time
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using different hooks, the thread safety of <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Intrusive</strong></span>
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is related to the containers and also to the object whose lifetime is manually
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As we can see, the analysis of the thread-safety of a program using <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Intrusive</strong></span> is harder than with non-intrusive containers.
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To analyze the thread safety, consider the following points:
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The auto-unlink hook's destructor and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">unlink</span><span class="special">()</span></code> functions modify the container indirectly.
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The safe mode and auto-unlink hooks' <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">is_linked</span><span class="special">()</span></code> functions are a read access to the container.
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Inserting an object in containers that will be modified by different threads
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without locking.
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