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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, James Xu wrote:

> Does anyone know if the latest version of libtiff is thread-safe?
> I looked all over the internet and couldn't find the answer.
> I looked through some of the code and it didn't look thread-safe.

There is clearly code in libtiff which is not thread safe.  The 
error-reporting mechanism is not thread safe (or is at least 
thread-unfriendly).

Bob
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