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2004.11.04 19:19 "Re: is libtiff thread-safe?", by Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Chris Losinger wrote: > oh? > > that's an unpleasant thing to learn. > > are there any plans to make it thread safe? There was some discussion on the list (initiated by Joris I think) regarding proposed improvements to the error reporting APIs to make them easier to use with threads. It seems that libtiff is currently thread-agnostic. It doesn't do anything special to support threads, however, it is not a disaster either since its implementation is mostly re-entrant. In some target environments, libtiff should be specially compiled to ensure that its use of C library APIs (and global errno) is thread safe. I don't believe that this special compilation support exists yet. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen