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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-12-23 23:22:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-12-23 23:22:23 +0000 |
| commit | 598965a6061e7c6d6adadf104c84bc7cd6cdeb07 (patch) | |
| tree | 113a1a037d8871dfb8d5a831f6bcf21f746baf3f /docs/libcurl/curl_easy_init.3 | |
| parent | d7a2938849a5f44196f0dad2a6261ee43492e4e4 (diff) | |
clarified that curl_global_init() isn't thread-safe and that it might affect
curl_easy_init() if you don't call curl_global_init() explicitly in your app
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_easy_init.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_init.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_init.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_init.3 index 62a6fbc50..a9fbe792a 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_init.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_init.3 @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ handle that you must use as input to other easy-functions. curl_easy_init initializes curl and this call \fBMUST\fP have a corresponding call to \fIcurl_easy_cleanup(3)\fP when the operation is complete. +If you did not already call \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP, it will be done +automatically with a default setup when you call \fIcurl_easy_init(3)\fP. +This may be lethal in multi-threaded cases, since \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP is +not thread-safe and must not be called more than once (or from more than one +thread). You are strongly adviced to not rely on this automatic behaviour, but +call \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP yourself properly. .SH RETURN VALUE If this function returns NULL, something went wrong and you cannot use the other curl functions. |