FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Frediano Ziglio
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:43 PM
> 
> liam AT inodes.org ha scritto:
> > Looking at freetds/freetds/src/dblib/unittests/thread.c shouldn't
> > dbinit() and dbexit() be called only once at the appropriate spot
> > in main() and not in test()?
> 
> Yes, it should however thinking at complicate dependency in libraries
> is a good thing if you can nest dbinit/dbexit.

The application is obliged to call dbinit() once and dbexit() once.
Calling dbinit() twice -- with no intervening dbexit() -- is an error,
according to both vendors' documentation.  

If the application calls dbinit() a second time, our only job is to
return FAIL without causing further harm.  

--jkl


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