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clarified that curl_global_init() isn't thread-safe and that it might affect

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curl_easy_init() if you don't call curl_global_init() explicitly in your app
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Daniel Stenberg
2005-12-23 23:22:23 +00:00
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docs/libcurl/curl_easy_init.3
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@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ handle that you must use as input to other easy-functions. curl_easy_init
initializes curl and this call \fBMUST\fP have a corresponding call to
\fIcurl_easy_cleanup(3)\fP when the operation is complete.
If you did not already call \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP, it will be done
automatically with a default setup when you call \fIcurl_easy_init(3)\fP.
This may be lethal in multi-threaded cases, since \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP is
not thread-safe and must not be called more than once (or from more than one
thread). You are strongly adviced to not rely on this automatic behaviour, but
call \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP yourself properly.
.SH RETURN VALUE
If this function returns NULL, something went wrong and you cannot use the
other curl functions.