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Re: Imagining a thread-safe curl_global_init

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 15:05:56 +0100 (CET)

On Sun, 1 Mar 2020, Patrick Monnerat via curl-library wrote:

> About curl_version*:

...

> If we change the code to only overwrite struct/buffer bytes with the same
> value, we should make these function thread-safe without having to to
> implement alternate functions. The only thing that I would recommend is to
> declare (at least conceptually) the existing functions result as const.
>
> Among the changes to perform is avoiding the use of functions that store a
> null-terminator after strings (like strcpy, strcat, msnprintf) directly
> targetting the static buffer.

Ah of course! Yes, that certainly sounds totally reasonable and it should be
doable. Thanks!

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