Re: [pdf-devel] http filesystem create/destroy functions needed

[Aleksander Morgado]

Hi Scoot,

> Managing libcurl for the http filesystem and RIA will require
> pthreads, and the initialization and cleanup of some http-
> filesystem-wide resources (worker thread, libcurl resources).
> There are currently no filesystem init or cleanup routines
> defined (that I could find anyhow).
> 
> Is there any reason not to add a filesystem init/cleanup pair
> of functions to the filesystem interface?
> 

Not real reason, I would say. But you can add init() and deinit()
functions if needed (not in public API), as done in the text & time
modules for example, which will then get called by pdf_init() and
pdf_finish() respectively.

Cheers,
-Aleksander