I could be wrong, but I thought that the new API was thread safe only
if you used the _r versions of the method so that you can pass in a
handle to the thread specific data. For example you can look at:
badthreadtest.c and threadtest.c I was under the impression that the
old API could be used in order to not break backwards compatibility.
In order to accomplish this though, they use a global handle that gets
initialized in initGEOS().

// NOTE: SRID will have to be changed after geometry creation
GEOSContextHandle_t handle = NULL;

If I am correct in order to use the thread safe API you would have to
create a new handle for each thread and pass it to the new _r versions
of all the methods. Am I missing something here? Is this done
automatically somehow?

Thanks,
Aron


On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Sean Gillies <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aron,
>
> The GEOS 3.1 C API *is* the new thread safe API, and I've encountered
> no problems with it yet. Shapely's tests pass. I encourage you to
> checkout the Shapely trunk and try it. If you're interested, I could
> introduce you to the zc.buildout configuration I am using to make
> python, GEOS, and shapely development environments.
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
>
> On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Aron Bierbaum wrote:
>
>> Has there been any work/testing to get Shapely to work with the new
>> thread safe GEOS API?
>>
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/RFC3
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/210
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/changeset/2232
>>
>> I would be very interested in testing any changes that have been made
>> to support this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aron
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