On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Wei Weng wrote:

> I have this application I am working on that spawns multiple threads, and
> some of those threads use libcurl and some others have nothing to do with
> libcurl at all.
>
> Can I do curl_global_init() in each of those threads? (for modulization's
> sake)

I think the man page is pretty clear on this:

     This function should only be called once (no matter how many
     threads or libcurl sessions that'll be used) by every appli­
     cation that uses libcurl.

So the answer would be: no, don't do that.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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