<html> <head> <title>Vorbisfile - Thread Safety</title> <link rel=stylesheet href="style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor=white text=black link="#5555ff" alink="#5555ff" vlink="#5555ff"> <table border=0 width=100%> <tr> <td><p class=tiny>Vorbisfile documentation</p></td> <td align=right><p class=tiny>vorbisfile version 1.2.0 - 20070723</p></td> </tr> </table> <h1>Thread Safety</h1> Vorbisfile's libvorbisfile may be used safely in a threading environment so long as thread access to individual <a href="OggVorbis_File.html">OggVorbis_File</a> instances is serialized. <ul> <li>Only one thread at a time may enter a function that takes a given <a href="OggVorbis_File.html">OggVorbis_File</a> instance, even if the functions involved appear to be read-only.<p> <li>Multiple threads may enter libvorbisfile at a given time, so long as each thread's function calls are using different <a href="OggVorbis_File.html">OggVorbis_File</a> instances. <p> <li>Any one <a href="OggVorbis_File.html">OggVorbis_File</a> instance may be used safely from multiple threads so long as only one thread at a time is making calls using that instance.<p> </ul> <br><br> <hr noshade> <table border=0 width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td><p class=tiny>copyright © 2007 Xiph.org</p></td> <td align=right><p class=tiny><a href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/">Ogg Vorbis</a></p></td> </tr><tr> <td><p class=tiny>Vorbisfile documentation</p></td> <td align=right><p class=tiny>vorbisfile version 1.2.0 - 20070723</p></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>