Heads-Up: Beware of xmlCleanupParser() when your package links against libxml2

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Wed Jan 13 02:03:00 UTC 2010


On Tue, 12.01.10 20:07, Tom Lane (tgl at redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> writes:
> > if you have code that links against libxml2 and calls
> > xmlCleanupParser() please verify that your project does that at the
> > appropriate place (i.e. immediately before exiting, and only once).
> 
> Why exactly is this a misuse, and not libxml2's bug to fix?  There's
> certainly nothing in their documentation suggesting that there's
> such a requirement.

http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html#xmlCleanupParser

Lennart

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