Re: [xml] libxml2 and pthreads

[Ben Greear <greearb candelatech com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:57:31PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

>   That would force existing threaded apps using libxml2 to change
> their initialization code, basically an API/ABI break. Impossible at this
> point, sorry !

Not really.  The default behaviour could have the current initialization code
initialize the locks with pthread-related methods.  But, if a distribution
wanted to have a pthread-less (but still potentially thread-safe) libxml,
then they can compile it w/out pthreads and patch any threaded applications
to use the new external lock initialization logic.


>   There is an alternative, at least on Linux/gcc but Jakub never provided
> the patch or information on how to really do so:
>
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115806

This is not available to non-redhat people it seems.

Ben

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