Rob Crittenden wrote, On 2008-09-09 20:18: > Does this mean than an explicit PR_Init() is not required?
Whenever you call a public PR_ function, if NSPR is not already initialized, it will get initialized by that first call. (*) However, NSPR initialization should only be done on one thread. It's bad if multiple threads call NSPR Functions that all try to initialize NSPR simultaneously. PR_Init exists to provide a way to initialize NSPR at a point in the program when the programmer is sure that no other thread can possibly be using NSPR. Note: (*) I'm not sure this is correct for 100% of the public NSPR PR_ functions, but I believe it is true for the vast majority. It may be that some functions, such as those that operate on open PRFileDescriptors, may not initialize NSPR, because they reasonably assume that the functions that returned those newly opened PRFileDescriptors would have initialized NSPR. This is speculation. Perhaps Wan-Teh will make an authoritative statement about this. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
