[cairo] Static caches and thread-safety
Carl Worth
cworth at cworth.org
Thu Nov 11 11:27:03 PST 2004
So I notice that the recent font cache work adds the first instance of
static data to cairo. This is therefore the first thread-unsafe code I'm
aware of in cairo, (and to the extent that even locking cairo_t* objects
won't help).
This can't stay this way. The patch did add stubs acknowledging the
deficiency:
static void
_lock_global_font_cache (void)
{
/* FIXME: implement locking. */
}
static void
_unlock_global_font_cache (void)
{
/* FIXME: implement locking. */
}
static cairo_cache_t *
_global_font_cache = NULL;
But how shall we fix this?
-Carl
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