Thanks Dan, i ended up using the same approach as you have suggested, and
it works great.Thanks for the reaffirmation.

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 06:47:38PM +0500, Usman Raza wrote:
> > Hello all, im using curl for chunked transfer in a separate thread, by
> reading
> > from a buffer, could anyone tell me how could i pause it, so i could
> maybe
> > switch to another thread (which will write to the buffer) and then
> switch back
> > to resume transfer? i did came across the curl_easy_pause(CURL *handle ,
> int
> > bitmask ) function which could be used with returning
> CURL_READFUNC_PAUSE from
> > a callback, but im not sure how i can use it to accomplish thread
> > synchronization.Appreciate any help on this.Thanks.
>
> libcurl is inherently paused while in a callback, so if you're just using
> the easy interface and therefore have just a single transfer
> outstanding, you can ignore curl_easy_pause and just do your thread
> synchronization within the read callback. Simply don't return from that
> callback with valid data until it's available! You can do any sort
> of synchronization you want in that callback, just don't return before
> the data is ready.
>
> >>> Dan
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