Re: [xml] processes and threading with xmlInitParser()

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:16:01PM +0100, Peter Barrie wrote:
> Using libxml2-2.6.9

  This is old.

> I'm using multiple processes under QNX. Each process may have multiple
> threads. All processes use dynamic linking to libxml2-2.6.9. What would
> be best practice for using xmlInitParser() and xmlCleanupParser() in
> this situation?  No code other than mine will make use of libxml. I've

  all xmlInitParser at the beginning before launching threads and never
call xmlCleanupParser()

> looked through the archives, but the multiple process issue is not
> discussed specifically. Maybe no different to the multiple thread
> issue?

  Should be no different. libraries space are Copy On Write betweeen 
processes. They should not interfere, if they do, the system is
not POSIX compliant and would be terribly insecure.

> Can I check the configuration issues. I expect I need to
>
> ./configure --with-threads  
>
> Do I need to do anything else to work in a multiprocess, multithreaded
> environment?

  no

> Thanks for any help
>
> Pete
>
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