On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 04:55:40PM -0400, K. Frank wrote: > Dan Fandrich commented in the thread: > > using libcurl in an enterprise application server > > as follows: > > As documented, curl_global_init may not be called > from a thread but from the main function before any > threads are running. > > First, do I understand correctly that if, say, I were to have > main() in a perfectly ordinary C program spawn a thread > (say, pthread_create), then it would be illegal for that thread > to call curl_global_init (even if no other thread in the program > were to call any curl functions)?
Yes. But sometimes you will be lucky and it will work. > Second (assuming that the above is correct), what is the > architectural issue that makes it illegal for any thread but > the main() thread to call curl_global_init? See some of the many other threads on this topic, such as http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-02/0116.html or http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-02/0009.html or http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2010-12/0038.html as a few examples. >>> Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
