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

[Frank Warmerdam]

Bram de Greve wrote:
> 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? =)

Bram,

I think that is correct.   I did an analysis of the core shapelib code
a few months ago and fixed two things:

  * Revision 1.73  2007/09/03 19:48:11  fwarmerdam
  * move DBFReadAttribute() static dDoubleField into dbfinfo
  *
  * Revision 1.72  2007/09/03 19:34:06  fwarmerdam
  * Avoid use of static tuple buffer in DBFReadTuple()

With those changes I believe it is thread safe.  So C S should likely
grab shapelib from CVS for safest operation.

Best regards,
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