On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>> libcurl only uses a global dns cache if you explicitly tell it to.
>> Any other way would cause serious breakage when used by apps all over.
>
> What sort of breakage?

The global DNS basically is a single hash with no mutexes or other ways of
thread-locks, so multi-threaded use of that will lead to memory corruptions of
various kinds.

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