libxml2 r3818 - trunk

[veillard svn gnome org]

Author: veillard
Date: Sat Feb 21 09:22:04 2009
New Revision: 3818
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?rev=3818&view=rev

Log:
* threads.c parser.c: more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and
  xmlCleanupParser to avoid troubles like #571409
daniel


Modified:
   trunk/ChangeLog
   trunk/parser.c
   trunk/threads.c

Modified: trunk/parser.c
==============================================================================
--- trunk/parser.c	(original)
+++ trunk/parser.c	Sat Feb 21 09:22:04 2009
@@ -13844,6 +13844,14 @@
  * the library and all XML/HTML documents built with it.
  * See also xmlInitParser() which has the opposite function of preparing
  * the library for operations.
+ *
+ * WARNING: if your application is multithreaded or has plugin support
+ *          calling this may crash the application if another thread or
+ *          a plugin is still using libxml2. It's sometimes very hard to
+ *          guess if libxml2 is in use in the application, some libraries
+ *          or plugins may use it without notice. In case of doubt abstain
+ *          from calling this function or do it just before calling exit()
+ *          to avoid leak reports from valgrind !
  */
 
 void

Modified: trunk/threads.c
==============================================================================
--- trunk/threads.c	(original)
+++ trunk/threads.c	Sat Feb 21 09:22:04 2009
@@ -892,6 +892,14 @@
  *
  * xmlCleanupThreads() is used to to cleanup all the thread related
  * data of the libxml2 library once processing has ended.
+ *
+ * WARNING: if your application is multithreaded or has plugin support
+ *          calling this may crash the application if another thread or
+ *          a plugin is still using libxml2. It's sometimes very hard to
+ *          guess if libxml2 is in use in the application, some libraries
+ *          or plugins may use it without notice. In case of doubt abstain
+ *          from calling this function or do it just before calling exit()
+ *          to avoid leak reports from valgrind !
  */
 void
 xmlCleanupThreads(void)