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Re: [SAD TRUTH] does curl_multi handle can be accessed from 2 threads?

From: Richard Atterer <richard_at_2006.atterer.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:49:13 +0200

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:05:51PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> When using the multi interface to transfer multiple files, it doesn't
> make any sense to split it up into multiple threads. If using many
> threads is your game, then I suggest you instead simply use indivual easy
> transfers in each thread.

I agree that this may be the basic misunderstanding. Because of the use of
select(), libcurl can perform a large number of concurrent downloads in one
thread.

Cheers,

Richard

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