[Shapelib] is the shaplib library thread safe???

Bram de Greve bram.degreve at bramz.net
Fri Nov 30 11:11:50 EST 2007


C S wrote:
> i am going to be using the library for multi
> processing and was wondering or just making sure if it
> was thread safe...thanks!
>   
AFAIK, the library itself is thread safe, but the different objects are
not.  So, it should be safe to open two different DBF files in two
different threads, but opening one DBF file and accessing it from
different threads is not.

Frank, am I right on this? =)

Cheers,
Bram

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