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Re: Is expat thread safe?
- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- To: Kent Archie <karchie@lucent.com>, xml-dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:16:43 +0700
> I'm using expat to handle some XML work I am doing and
> at my code review, people asked about the therad safety of expat.
> I looked around at this groups archives and other web resources
> and didn't see a solid answer.
> My server process is creating a separate parser instance for each thread
> so I expect that it is OK.
If you use a separate parser instance for each thread, then you're safe,
provided that you are usind a thread-safe malloc.
James