You're right, the lock only needs to be around use of the output_formats[]
array. It does not need to include calling the create_function() itself once
it's been looked up. I will submit a fix for it.
-- lg
On Jul 31, 2013, at 6:54 AM, Michel Lerenard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen that the ImageInput::create function locks a mutex before getting
> the list of plugins. It seems the mutex is released when the
> recursive_lock_guard gets out of scope, which means AFTER the load is done:
> the library can not load two files at the same time.
> What exactly is this lock protecting ?
>
> I was wondering if there is somewhere a plan to have a lock free access via
> ImageInput ?
>
>
> Michel
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