On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Vladimir Grishchenko wrote:

> Libcurl noob here. I'm wondering if it is safe to call libcurl from multiple
> threads if I were to use the non-reentrant variant of gethostbyname.

If libcurl is built to use a non-reentrant variant of gethostbyname, then it
isn't really thread-safe I guess.

Are you seriously using a system that doesn't have a thread-safe version of
that function? Just about evertything made during the last 15 years has this
done right...

> I looked around and didn't see any guards preventing multiple threads from
> simultaneously entering gethostbyname in libcurl. I'm planning to use
> synchronous resolver, at least initially, if that matters.

Well, using c-ares for resolving would of course be a way to avoid having to
use your system's defective gethostbyname implementation... ;-)

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