Re: [xml] multithreading issue?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:02:02PM +0200, oliverst online de wrote:
> I recognised, that some functions in the libxml2 are calling
> xmlInitParser(). Isn't this function supposed to be called before the
> parser is being used? And wouldn't there be a multithreading issue with
> it, because xmlInitParser() isn't reentrant? 
> Think of a multithreaded program, that calls multiple function witha
> xmlInitParser() from differnet threads. It would surely call
> xmlInitParser() more than once.

  void
  xmlInitParser(void) {
      if (xmlParserInitialized != 0)
              return;

http://xmlsoft.org/threads.html

 "call xmlInitParser() in the "main" thread before using any of the
  libxml2 API (except possibly selecting a different memory allocator)"

it's very clear. Call it before anything else ! If you don't you're not
following the guidelines.

Daniel

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