Re: svn commit: r1239926 - in /subversion/trunk/subversion: include/svn_repos.h libsvn_repos/hooks.c libsvn_repos/repos.c libsvn_repos/repos.h

Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:07:59 +0100:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:41:48PM -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
> > It doesn't look like it's multithreaded safe to set, but should it be?
>
> I am not sure.
>
> Note that this isn't changing the environment of the currently running
> process. It takes effect in the child process that runs a hook.
>
> The intended use is to set the hook environment once, after opening
> the repository with svn_repos_open().
>

In that case, you could have revved svn_repos_open() to add a parameter;
that would have claified the intended usage and avoided the thread-safety
issues altogether.

> I've just committed some code that uses this from mod_dav_svn
> in r1239966. Maybe this example will make the intented use clear, and
> we can document behaviour WRT thread-safety or make the code thread-safe?
Received on 2012-02-03 09:50:00 CET