[Mapserver-dev] MS concurrency problem with vector symbols (partially solved)

[Daniel Morissette]

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 
> Anyway, I've spent several hours chipping away at this one and I've
> managed to find where things were going wrong. The problem was that I
> was calling setSymbolSet() which is not thread safe because it uses the
> parser without locking. To fix the problem I implemented a lock around
> msLoadSymbolSet() in mapsymbol.c and also had to change the lexer reset
> code a little - please find the patch attached.
> 

FYI I filed this in bugzilla so that someone test and apply the patch
when we have a chance:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=339

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