[gdal-dev] Is GDALFPolygonize thread safe ?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jeff,

I reviewed the polygonize code and I don't see any multi-threading
issues in it on quick inspection.

The algorithm does read from GDAL and write to OGR so it would also be
sensitive to issues with particular drivers.  The main GDAL drivers
(ie. GeoTIFF, MEM) should be fine.  For writing OGR drivers like
shapefile, or MEM should be ok.

I'm assuming each thread is writing to a distinct output OGR supported
datasource and layer.

No guarantees unfortunately.

Best regards,
Frank

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Jeff Lacoste <jefflacostegdal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 'GDALFPolygonize' create polygons from a raster band into a vector file. Can
> this function called from multiple threads safely ?
>
> For ex. I have 10 raster files and would like to fire 10 threads. Every
> thread opens a raster
> and call GDALFPolygonize to generate a vector file in MapInfo format.
>
> Would this be concurrent safe ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff
>
>
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