Is libmagic multithreaded?

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Mon Jul 28 20:05:18 EEST 2008


On Jul 28,  8:42am, david.nachum at berkeley.edu ("David Nachum") wrote:
-- Subject: Is libmagic multithreaded?

| Is libmagic multi-threaded?
| -David

magic_t contains state, so you cannot use it from multiple threads. But if
each thread has it's own magic_t obtained by magic_open, then you are fine.

christos



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