On 2/22/23 17:00, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 04:52:35PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> ...
>> Seems sane to me in general, except for the fact that the documentation
>> at <https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLSHOPT_SHARE.html> writes:
>>
>> """
>> CURL_LOCK_DATA_CONNECT
>>
>> Put the connection cache in the share object and make all easy handles
>> using this share object share the connection cache.
>>
>> Note that due to a known bug, it is not safe to share connections this
>> way between multiple concurrent threads. [...]
>> """
>>
>> Ugh, what? If it's not safe to share the connection cache between
>> threads, then CURL_LOCK_DATA_CONNECT is effectively unusable, and no
>> connection pooling can be done. How does that *not* make this whole curl
>> facility useless?
>>
>> The facility in general looks super weird; what sense does it make *not*
>> to share some particular CURL_LOCK_DATA_xxx?
> 
> I can only conclude this cannot be true.  Daniel Stenberg wrote this
> code which definitely uses threads:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/bagder/7eccf74f8b6d70b5abefeb7f288dba9b
> 
> Also I did a lot of testing and didn't hit any obvious threading bugs.

OK, so the documentation is busted. News at 11.

Can you report a bug for cURL, or should I report it sometime later?

> Nevertheless I'm not planning to integrate this patch any time soon.

I don't oppose merging the patch once we get a clear verdict that the
documentation is wrong.

Thanks!
Laszlo
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