I’ve been searching around, trying to find an answer. I know that I can create multiple libmagic instances, one for each thread, and that is thread-safe. But can I have a single instance shared between multiple threads?
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I’ve been searching around, trying to find an answer. I know that I can create multiple libmagic instances, one for each thread, and that is thread-safe. But can I have a single instance shared between multiple threads?
No, you cannot share libmagic handle/descriptor between two or more threads, in this sense libmagic is not threadsafe.