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@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ FAQ 5.15 How do I get an FTP directory listing? 5.16 I want a different time-out! 5.17 Can I write a server with libcurl? + 5.18 Does libcurl use threads? 6. License Issues 6.1 I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library? @@ -1365,6 +1366,19 @@ FAQ server for. And there are really good stand-alone ones that have been tested and proven for many years. There's no need for you to reinvent them! + 5.18 Does libcurl use threads? + + Put simply: no, libcurl will execute in the same thread you call it in. All + callbacks will be called in the same thread as the one you call libcurl in. + + If you want to avoid your thread to be blocked by the libcurl call, you make + sure you use the non-blocking API which will do transfers asynchronously - + but still in the same single thread. + + libcurl will potentially internally use threads for name resolving, if it + was built to work like that, but in those cases it'll create the child + threads by itself and they will only be used and then killed internally by + libcurl and never exposed to the outside. 6. License Issues |