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Not everything obeys inherited mutability, though. Some types allow you to
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have multiple aliases of a location in memory while mutating it. Unless these types use
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synchronization to manage this access, they are absolutely not thread safe. Rust
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synchronization to manage this access, they are absolutely not thread-safe. Rust
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captures this through the `Send` and `Sync` traits.
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* A type is Send if it is safe to send it to another thread.
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@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ with a raw pointer requires dereferencing it, which is already unsafe. In that
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sense, one could argue that it would be "fine" for them to be marked as thread
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safe.
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However it's important that they aren't thread safe to prevent types that
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contain them from being automatically marked as thread safe. These types have
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However it's important that they aren't thread-safe to prevent types that
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contain them from being automatically marked as thread-safe. These types have
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non-trivial untracked ownership, and it's unlikely that their author was
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necessarily thinking hard about thread safety. In the case of Rc, we have a nice
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example of a type that contains a `*mut` that is definitely not thread safe.
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necessarily thinking hard about thread safety. In the case of `Rc`, we have a nice
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example of a type that contains a `*mut` that is definitely not thread-safe.
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Types that aren't automatically derived can simply implement them if desired:
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