Re: [xml] libxml2 re-entrancy (thread safe) for multiple "reads" of same file from different threads

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:35:43PM +0530, ebin jose wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have few quires on thread safety (re-entrancy) of libxml2.
 read http://xmlsoft.org/threads.html
I think it answer your question.

> In my application two different threads can call this (mentioned below)
> function with same file.
> DocPtr = xmlParseFile ( (const char *) FilePath)
> 
> {Apart from the above mentioned function, I will be calling libxml2 tree
> API's to completely parse the file}
> 
> I believe this function will return two different DocPtr , then I can use

  Obviously, yes.

> two pointers independently in my threads.
> Is my assumption correct?

  yes.

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