[whatwg] Storage mutex

Mike Shaver mike.shaver at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 18:10:20 PDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jeremy Orlow<jorlow at chromium.org> wrote:
> Can a plugin ever call into a script while a script is running besides when
> the script is making a synchronous call to the plugin?  If so, that worries
> me since it'd be a way for the script to lose its lock at _any_ time.

Does the Chromium out-of-process plugin model take steps to prevent
it?  I had understood that it let such things race freely, but maybe
that was just at the NPAPI level and there's some other interlocking
protocol before script can be invoked.

Mike



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