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| author | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2015-07-31 01:58:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2015-07-31 01:58:03 -0400 |
| commit | 0da1f5dc5cf0ddf7aadbb713ee1291ef6fb6ede0 (patch) | |
| tree | 5da0e6e2893505d10479a2f91631e0fc0f51c3e2 /docs/libcurl/curl_global_init_mem.3 | |
| parent | 909f0a82b07545e8e0a11744d8c5671306d6fc9e (diff) | |
libcurl-thread.3: Warn memory functions must be thread safe
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-07/0149.html
Reported-by: Eric Ridge
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_global_init_mem.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_global_init_mem.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_global_init_mem.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_global_init_mem.3 index 9cddef7c3..491550e22 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_global_init_mem.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_global_init_mem.3 @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ This function works exactly as \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP with one addition: it allows the application to set callbacks to replace the otherwise used internal memory functions. -This man page only adds documentation for the callbacks, see the -\fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP man page for all the rest. When you use this -function, all callback arguments must be set to valid function pointers. +When you use this function, all callback arguments must be set to valid +function pointers. \fBIf you are using libcurl with multiple threads the +callback replacement functions must be thread safe.\fP The prototypes for the given callbacks should match these: .IP "void *malloc_callback(size_t size);" @@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ To replace realloc() To replace strdup() .IP "void *calloc_callback(size_t nmemb, size_t size);" To replace calloc() +.RE +This function is otherwise the same as \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP, please refer +to that man page for documentation. .SH "CAUTION" Manipulating these gives considerable powers to the application to severely screw things up for libcurl. Take care! |