[geos-devel] thread safety?

[Ferdinando Villa]

I can't vow for the thread safety of GEOS in general, but I'm using it
in quite a few asynchronous functions within a threadpool server which
gets a lot of daily use, and never had a problem. Of course its current
design requires attention, and you must be careful where do you put all
these pointers, but that's not just for thread safety :)

ferdinando

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:16, Sean Gillies wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:03 AM, strk at refractions.net wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 07:40:59AM -0600, Sean Gillies wrote:
> >> Is GEOS thread safe?
> >
> > Good question. Can it be tested ?
> > --strk;
> >
> 
> Ah, thrown back at me :)  I just want to know if thread safety was a 
> design goal and if the goal has been achieved.  Looking back in the 
> archives I found a thread where Martin had stated that GEOS should aim 
> to be safe, and another where Dave Blasby asked the same question with 
> no answer.
> 
> It's not so much a concern for PostgreSQL, but for other uses.  I'd 
> like to avoid synchronizing use of GEOS if I didn't need to do so.
> 
> cheers,
> Sean
> 
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Ferdinando Villa, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor, Ecoinformatics
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and Dept of Botany, Univ. of Vermont
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