[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 50992] library should be thread-safe

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Tue Aug 7 14:01:09 PDT 2012


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50992

--- Comment #34 from Albert Astals Cid <tsdgeos at terra.es> 2012-08-07 21:01:09 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #31)
> Sorry, but I fear that "it should be really thread-safe everywhere" is the
> wrong statement: It's thread safe is always a question of design, a function or
> a method can be thread-safe in the meaning that it can be called / used in
> different threads simultaneous or a c++ object can be thread-safe in the
> meaning that it can shared in different threads.
> So You first need to determine which objects / methods should be shared. So
> once again it looks like as if we miss a documentation which is internal and
> what is external, external calls should then be thread-safe!

Well, that's easy, the externall calls are the ones that can be called from the
frontends ;-)

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