From 4fba30519774a0d2232e87315df3c3b8c5abf620 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nigel Stewart <nigels@nigels.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 02:32:23 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] XML library initialisation is not thread safe (#272)

Note that calling XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize is currently not thread safe

Co-authored-by: Nigel Stewart <nigel.stewart@emesent.io>
---
 src/E57XmlParser.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/E57XmlParser.cpp b/src/E57XmlParser.cpp
index 3908823..78444ed 100644
--- a/src/E57XmlParser.cpp
+++ b/src/E57XmlParser.cpp
@@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ void E57XmlParser::init()
    // Initialize the XML4C2 system
    try
    {
+      // NOTE: This is not thread safe for multiple simulaneous E57 readers.
+      //       Ideally we'd do this once, not once per reader
       XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize();
    }
    catch ( const XMLException &ex )