Re: [xml] libxml2 and thread-safety

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:12:18AM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 14:24, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> [snip]
> >   Check the archives, this was discussed at length last week and is being
> > worked on. multiple threads parsing different documents should work once
> > initialized properly, there might be undiscovered problems w.r.t. the HTML
> > parser though.
>
> ok. i read the archives. i am wondering what you mean for "once
> initialized properly". i call the init stuff before going multithread
> and my threads parse different documents (at the same time). is that
> safe or i need to use a global lock to arbitrate access to the parser?
> from the archives i would bet on the lock, but your mail seems going the
> other way... 

  Parsing different documents in different threads should work.
There might be a bug but I don't know any which should break 
processing things this way (except maybe a couple of points but
they are not used when parsing HTML).
  Try to run tests without your HTTP implementation and report
a valid stack trace for further examination.

Daniel

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