2016.11.11 14:03 "[Tiff] Global variables in LibTIFF", by Paavo Helde

2016.11.16 12:04 "Re: [Tiff] Global variables in LibTIFF", by Gerben Vos

Why is the context named? It smells like magic behavior at a distance (even though it doesn't seem to be) that the name of the context and the opened tiff are the same.

I did a thread-safety analysis a few years ago, but did not contact the mailing list about it. My implementation ideas for fixing those were more among the lines of those in the patch attached to http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255, except that I thought of calling the context object with the formerly global variables a TIFFContext instead of a TIFFApplication. There would then be a default context (that would still be the, only, global variable) that would be used by code that didn’t create their own context. I don't have an implementation, though.

Here are the main notes from my thread-safety analysis at that time (September 2014; I think it was for libtiff 4.0.3):

Note that there are also a few static variables whose initialization might be a problem in a multithreaded environment, although they always initialize the same data every time.

Gerben.

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