On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, frank ernest wrote:

> If I start multiple curl instances and tell them all to use the same cookie
> file

Use the file for what? Reading from the same file works fine.

> will they trip over each other? Cause race conditions? Or corrupt the file?

If they all write the file, there'll be a race. That may indeed corrupt the
file.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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