[gdal-dev] Is GDALFPolygonize thread safe ?

[Jeff Lacoste]

Thanks again Frank.

May be some one else knows more about the MapInfo OGR driver would comment
on its thread safety ?

Jeff


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Jeff Lacoste <jefflacostegdal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Great. Thanks Frank.
> >
> > Yes I'm writing to distinct output OGR.
> >
> > For GDAL drivers you mean that some of them might not be thread safe ?
> and
> > hence may not be used safely from multiple threads
> > even for read access ?
>
> Jeff,
>
> There are a lot of GDAL drivers and it is entirely possible, even
> likely, that some have threading issues.  I believe most are ok.
>
> > Is MapInfo OGR driver thread safe as long as i'm writing one distinct
> .tab
> > from one distinct thread ?
>
> I don't know of any issues with the mapinfo driver, but it is
> complicated and I have not personally done an audit of it.
>
> Best regards,
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