[Mapserver-dev] Thread safe issue

[Steve Lime]

It's an issue with John Ellson's GD/FreeType code. I remember it when
fixing a few things in his code. The font cache was definitely a global
structure. 

>>> Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> 02/27/03 01:22PM >>>
John Newton wrote:
> In several version of gd.lib we have noticed that gdImageStringTTF()
is not
> thread safe due to font caching logic.
> 
> Could a new TLOCK be added to protect calls to gdImageStringTTF()?
> 
> thanks,
> John Newton

John,

Are you willing to test it if I commit changes to CVS to protect all
gdImageStringTTF calls with a lock?  Note that thanks to Dylan we now
have
a gd support contract, and if there are any threading issues in gd that
people
need fixed we could pursue the issue with the maintainer.   In this
case, I
assume the problem is down in the freetype library, so it likely isn't
worth
bugging the gd maintainer.

Best regards,
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