On 24/01/2019 12:00, Vlad Khorsun wrote: > 24.01.2019 15:13, Jiří Činčura wrote: >> Vlad, is it OK to call this method multiple times (nothing else is >> called in between)? > > Yes. All calls after first one is (almost) no-op > >> I'm asking because some application might load same library using >> different paths via symlinks. And at least Windows (haven't tested >> Mac or Linux) is smart enough to load it just once, but I see it from >> user as two different paths. Currently there isn't a good xplat way >> to resolve symlinks. Thus I might end up calling this twice or more >> times. > > No problem ;) > It's really problematic, not in the exact situation Jiri explained...
But if we have some libraries in the application loading Firebird, and the application writer does not have total control of that, two libraries may load Firebird and when one of them calls the shutdown function, the other will not work anymore. Adriano Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
