Dear MASON team,



I have a number of agents being stepped by ParallelSeqence facility.

For most of the time it runs smoothly. Nevertheless,  I got into a

minor problem when trying to query the schedule for time: any

reference to state.schedule.time() or getSteps() causes a deadlock. I

have tried putting it as a synchronized call with locking on schedule

and simulation, I tried adding a synchronized function to SimState

that would return me that information, always with the same result.



Is it possible to access schedule when agent is stepped of the

ParallelSequence at all without causing deadlocks? Or is

ParallelSequence locking the schedule?



Above mentioned issue is more of theoretical significance for me: as I

need just coarse approximation of the number of steps from schedule, I

update agents with this information just before the ParallelSequence

is stepped.and avoid querying the schedule. I would love to know the

answer for potential future developments though.



Regards



Maciek