FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:50, liam AT inodes.org wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:23:37AM +0200, ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> 
> > I see. However tds_ctx it's referenced in TDSSOCKET and used (only for
> > reading) in all libTDS functions. So you have active readed structures
> 
> Whether or not it's used for reading or writing is not relevant. The
> concern here is memory visibility, not mutual exclusion.

<various arguments snipped>

There's probably a reason why Sybase never attempted to make DBlibrary
thread-safe...

And why they have "normal" and _r versions of the Client Library and
Server library libs...

Michael
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