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

[Ian Kent]

On 01/13/2010 09:07 AM, Tom Lane 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.

libxml2 also doesn't use pthreads Thread Specific Keys correctly either
which can lead to segv if the library is unloaded prior to the threaded
application exiting.

Ian