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Thread safety

From: Konstantin Miller <konstantin.miller_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:37:28 +0200

Dear all,

the libcurl tutorial states that "libcurl is completely thread safe, except
for two issues: signals and SSL/TLS handlers". On the other hand, the
description of curl_global_init states: "This function is not thread
safe. You must not call it when any other thread in the program (i.e. a
thread sharing the same memory) is running. This doesn't just mean no other
thread that is using libcurl."

What is right?

Thanks!

Best,
Konstantin

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