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

["Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew w nosenko gmail com>]

On Feb 20, 2008 2:50 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, but (IMO) there indded may be a problem if defferent concurent
threads running on the different CPUs.

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Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew w nosenko gmail com>