Hi,

The docs for curl_global_init say that "If this function returns non-zero, something went wrong and you cannot use the other curl functions. ".

I would want to call curl_easy_strerror with the return code from curl_global_init, and the current implementation of curl_easy_strerror seems safe to call (it doesn't depend on globals), but according to the docs this is not guaranteed.

Could the docs be updated with a minimal guarantee?
"you cannot use the other curl functions, except call curl_easy_strerror with the return code from curl_global_init"

Also it is not clear whether curl_version() and curl_version_info() can work if curl_global_init failed or not (or if they call curl_global_init internally or not, like curl_easy_init).

Best regards,
--Edwin
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Received on 2013-07-09