On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Aldrich wrote:

> as the tutorial says curl_global_init function is not thread safe,I find the
> examples all put this function before curl_global_init,

You mean before curl_easy_init, right ?

> can I remove this function before curl_easy_init,and donot use it?

If you do, libcurl will instead call it from within curl_easy_init() - as
documented.

> or if I write multi-thread program then I should add curl_global_init
> function?

Is this really not clear in the documentation? curl_global_init() should be
used explicitly if you want proper control of your threads.

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