more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser to avoid
* threads.c parser.c: more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and
xmlCleanupParser to avoid troubles like #571409
daniel
svn path=/trunk/; revision=3818
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dc4e2f2..0afc683 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Feb 21 10:20:34 CET 2009 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+ * threads.c parser.c: more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and
+ xmlCleanupParser to avoid troubles like #571409
+
Fri Feb 20 09:40:04 CET 2009 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
* xmlwriter.c: cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index 9db664f..a4d8e61 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -13844,6 +13844,14 @@
* the library and all XML/HTML documents built with it.
* See also xmlInitParser() which has the opposite function of preparing
* the library for operations.
+ *
+ * WARNING: if your application is multithreaded or has plugin support
+ * calling this may crash the application if another thread or
+ * a plugin is still using libxml2. It's sometimes very hard to
+ * guess if libxml2 is in use in the application, some libraries
+ * or plugins may use it without notice. In case of doubt abstain
+ * from calling this function or do it just before calling exit()
+ * to avoid leak reports from valgrind !
*/
void
diff --git a/threads.c b/threads.c
index 2223e8a..073fd14 100644
--- a/threads.c
+++ b/threads.c
@@ -892,6 +892,14 @@
*
* xmlCleanupThreads() is used to to cleanup all the thread related
* data of the libxml2 library once processing has ended.
+ *
+ * WARNING: if your application is multithreaded or has plugin support
+ * calling this may crash the application if another thread or
+ * a plugin is still using libxml2. It's sometimes very hard to
+ * guess if libxml2 is in use in the application, some libraries
+ * or plugins may use it without notice. In case of doubt abstain
+ * from calling this function or do it just before calling exit()
+ * to avoid leak reports from valgrind !
*/
void
xmlCleanupThreads(void)