Re: [xml] Query Regarding Revision 2121 in SVN for entity nesting check in parserinternal.c

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:32:47PM +0530, Ashwin wrote:
>    Hi,
>
>     I   have   a   doubt   regarding   the   revision   2121  in  SVN  in
>    parserInternals.c,  a  check  for entities nesting has been added. For
>    the following statement,(in function xmlNewInputStream)
>
>    input->id = id++;
>
>    where  id  is a static variable thread safety is not taken care of. Is
>    this  because there can be only one parser context irrespective of the
>    number  of  threads?  I think the comment above the code mentions this
>    fact.

  No the comment is about the fact that only one thread is allowed to
use a given parser context. If you didn't then the application had broken the
libxml2 API rules.

>    However  I assume in case of scenarios where there is a parser context
>    per thread, thread-safety is required, right?

  No. try to understand how the added check works.
The point is make sure that for a given parsing context you always get 
different ids when you create new input streams. That code does it,
and the comment is right. 

Daniel


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