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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?
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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