On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, centrio_at_gmail.com wrote:

> Libcurl documentation specifies some restriction on curl_global_init()
> function (when used in multi threading env). In my application I am not
> using curl_global_init. Instead I am getting an easy_handle using easy_init
> and then performing easy_perform on this handle. Everything works fine. I
> have tested this code with some 1000 URLs, and have not found any problem. I
> wanted to know, what could be the results of not using curl_global_init()
> and directly using easy_perform on easy_handle. What can be possible
> problems in this approach.

If you don't call curl_global_init() on your own, libcurl will do it for you.
And if you do that in a thread, then you risk that more than one thread calls
it at the same time and then of course all sorts of problems can arise as it
is not thread-safe.

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  / daniel.haxx.se