Re: [xml] libxml2 and pthreads

[Ben Greear <greearb candelatech com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:32:29PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
> > I do not have to link libpthread for normal malloc and free though,
> > and when I fork() from a signal handler my program doesn't deadlock
> > deep in libpthread :)
>
>
>   Doing anything complex in a signal handler will bite you hard anyway
> sooner or later. Advice : don't do this...

Yep...it's just code to write out the last bit of debugging info
before abort().

Anyway, I've seen other libraries that allowed one to set the lock
callback methods at run-time.  Something like:

xmlSetLock(int my_lock_method(), void* myData, xmlFoo xml_thing_that_needs_a_lock);

If you did something like that, then there would be no pthread dependency,
but those that are running multi-threaded apps can provide their own locking
primitives (based off of libpthread or their threading package of choice).

Ben

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