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Re: Usage of sigsetjmp in libcurl

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:10:45 +0200 (MET DST)

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Gautam Mani wrote:

> I just noticed that sigsetjmp/siglongjmp are being used in libcurl. Doesnt
> this make the library MT-unsafe?

The timing out of name resolves has always been MT-unsafe, as it uses
signals. The only difference the sigsetjmp/siglongjmp do to this that I can
think of, is that they actually make things work for single-thread
situations...

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Received on 2002-06-21