Re: [xml] Possible problems making libxml2 non-threaded?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:11:53AM +0200, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> Hi Daniel
>
> Daniel Veillard schrieb:
> >   Theads support is about thread safety support not about performances.
> > If you're sure there is nothing on the whole OS using threads and libxml2
> > then you should be safe. But I have no way to estimate that and would be
> > rather pessimistic by default libxml2 is used in many software and many
> > may expect the default libxml2 behaviour. Your environment seems highly
> > specific, and it's impossible for me to make any assertion about it.
>
> Ah thanks for clarifying this. Reading this I think we will go forward
> and build a special non-threaded package for our purposes at a
> "non-system" location where our own programs may link to other programs
> on the system won't be able to see it. That way only our programs would
> be the ones harmed if something were going amiss.

  Yup if you can do this then that should be just fine I think,

Daniel

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