Re: curl not thread-safe

Le 2020-01-07 16:55, Tim Rühsen a écrit :
> On 1/7/20 2:14 PM, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, Thierry HUCAHRD wrote:
>>
>>> If I use libcurl with GnuTLS I am thread-safe, even in a plugin?
>>
>> It depends.
>>
>> If you use GnuTLS from before 3.3.0, gnutls_global_init() needs to be
>> called by libcurl at init time and that function is documented to not
>> be
>> thread safe.
>>
>> For GnuTLS 3.3.0 and later I *suspect* it inits itself in a
>> thread-safe
>> manner. Their docs isn't very clear on this subject:
>> https://gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Initialization.html#Initialization
>
> Created https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/900 :-)
Thanks Tim,

Nikos' answer (on GnuTls: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/900)
implies that if a program doesn't call curl_global_init,
and curl_easy_cleanup doesn't call it either. Then libcurl would be
thread-safe.

> Regards, Tim
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Received on 2020-01-09