thread safety and OGR

[Howard Butler]

I'm +1 on including it, assuming the release manager lets it in.  We  
already have precedence for a number of quasi bug/features related to  
AGG this release, and the behavior of MapServer's locking facilities  
in other contexts is well known.

/me calls unprotected OGR a bug.

Howard

On Aug 19, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have a client who would like to see OGR thread safety in MapServer
> implemented.  The issue is recorded in Trac as:
>
>   http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/1977
>
> However, we are quite late in our release cycle and I can see some
> ambiguity about whether this is really a bug fix, or really a new  
> feature
> in bug-fix-clothing.  So, I have a patch ready to make mapogr.cpp  
> thread
> safe using the normal Mapserver thread lock facilities.  How do we  
> feel
> about my applying it?
>
> Best regards,
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