[Icecast-dev] Updated version of patch

[Michel Van den Bergh]

>Why would you keep a non-thread safe API ?


I do not want to touch libshout.  I am only concerned
with the python bindings.
 
Probably Brendan can answer this better but  I think
libshout is not thread safe for simultaneous accesses
to a shout_t object. This is not a problem
as the posix locking primitives are trivial to use.

For python apis should in principle be absolutely
thread safe. This is mostly achieved through the GIL but
in blocking functions it is necessary to release the GIL.

Regards,
Michel



Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Le Wednesday 10 September 2008 09:57:21 Michel Van den Bergh, vous avez 
> écrit :
>   
>> One should then use the thread safe version instead of the original api
>> functions.
>>     
>
> Why would you keep a non-thread safe API ?
>
> It would be also good if the other could be turn into blocking/non-blocking 
> variants.
>
>
> Romain
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