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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2011-09-30 23:42:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2011-09-30 23:42:47 +0200 |
| commit | 5d45285cf39c27135542edcbbadc71c1bd3d90ab (patch) | |
| tree | d24e36d0fed50cda9c4d27c3db8cfe6b3a198da1 /docs/libcurl | |
| parent | 3d19e1eedf73f48e03c68b8ff7e8a7ad178345ad (diff) | |
tutorial: clarify the handle sharing when treaded
Previously there was wording that made people uncertain of the exact
rules.
Feedback by: Julien Royer and Georg Lippitsch
URL: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-09/0357.html
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 index 1efd6fbb3..ff1a06be2 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2010, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -249,9 +249,11 @@ complication for you. Given simply the URL to a file, libcurl will take care of all the details needed to get the file moved from one machine to another. .SH "Multi-threading Issues" -The first basic rule is that you must \fBnever\fP share a libcurl handle (be -it easy or multi or whatever) between multiple threads. Only use one handle in -one thread at a time. +The first basic rule is that you must \fBnever\fP simultaneously share a +libcurl handle (be it easy or multi or whatever) between multiple +threads. Only use one handle in one thread at any time. You can pass the +handles around among threads, but you must never use a single handle from more +than one thread at any given time. libcurl is completely thread safe, except for two issues: signals and SSL/TLS handlers. Signals are used for timing out name resolves (during DNS lookup) - |