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Re: Multi-threading

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:51:22 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Julien wrote:

>> Never share libcurl handles between multiple threads. You should only use
>> one handle in one single thread at any given time.
>
> This sentence is not totally clear to me. Does it mean that a handle
> is bound to a thread for its whole lifetime or only that at a given
> time it must not be used by several threads?

The latter. You can pass the handles around among threads, but you must never
use a single handle from more than one thread at any given time.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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