On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, centrio_at_gmail.com wrote:

>> 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.
>
> Do you mean to say, the current code, which does not use global_init() is
> also not thread safe?

curl_global_init() is not thread safe.

Thus if you don't make sure it gets called in a safe way, you're not doing it
in a ... eh, safe way.

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  / daniel.haxx.se