Re: [xml] libxml2 thread safety (SUMMARY)

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford office-logic com>]

On Wed,  3 October 12:47 Daniel Veillard wrote:

>   My personal inclination as I explained yesterday would be:
>     - to keep all global settings in a new structure
>     - that structure is accessed using an overridable function returning
>       a pointer to that structure
>     - the old name for the global variable is turned into a macro
>       dereferencing the pointer returned by that function (I think
>       this will keep the read/write capability of that property).

That is almost exactly the approach for making the global variable 'errno'
thread safe (except its just one variable rather than a structure).

Brian Stafford