[gdal-dev] Call for review on RFC 101: Raster dataset read-only thread-safety

[Kurt Schwehr]

My take would be to not offer the force option unless there is someone who
states they really need it.

On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 6:52 AM Even Rouault via gdal-dev <
gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> No other reactions? In particular w.r.t. the open question whether it is
> worth to offer a "force" mode in the situations where a dataset cannot
> be re-opened (or for a band whose belonging to a dataset cannot be
> determined) where the thread-safe wrapper would just put a mutex around
> the calls to that dataset/band (so obviously this wouldn't scale with
> the number of threads). I'm probably leaning on not offering this option
> for now, if there's no obvious need it is useful. It can always been
> added afterwards.
>
> Even
>
> Le 29/08/2024 à 14:26, Even Rouault via gdal-dev a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've worked on a new RFC 101: Raster dataset read-only thread-safety:
> > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/10676
> >
> > Summary: This RFC enables users to get instances of GDALDataset (and
> > their related objects such as GDALRasterBand) that are thread-safe for
> > read-only raster operations, that is such instances can be safely used
> > from multiple threads without locking.
> >
> > It is backed by a preliminary implementation (fairly complete, apart
> > from writing new tests...). There's at least one open question raised
> > in the RFC.
> >
> > PS: you can see one of the benefits of the migration of the doc to
> > ReadTheDocs hosting, with the preview of the updated documentation in
> > pull requests. So this is a way to mention that the move to RtD
> > hosting has now been completed, with the default version ("latest")
> > reflecting the state of the master branch, as well as the version for
> > the release/3.9 branch. Thanks to Dan Baston (and other people
> > involved) for this work! There might be a few adjustments needed, so
> > if you notice something unusual w.r.t. to the previous state, please
> > file a ticket.
> >
> > Even
> >
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