Re: [xml] libxml2 and pthreads

[Ben Greear <greearb candelatech com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:29:30PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
>   Okay why not, but it won't change the requirement on pthreads by
> default if compiled with --with-threads on Linux. If you make a patch I
> will look at it :-)

My hope would be that distributions would start shipping it compiled w/out
pthreads by default and applications that currently use the pthread version
would quickly migrate to this new approach.

I haven't looked at the xml source before, but I'll see if I can get
something done in a day or two.

Thanks,
Ben

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