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4.6 KiB
Groff
96 lines
4.6 KiB
Groff
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.\" * Copyright (C) 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
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.TH libcurl-thread 3 "13 Jul 2015" "libcurl" "libcurl thread safety"
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.SH NAME
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libcurl-thread \- libcurl thread safety
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.SH "Multi-threading with libcurl"
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libcurl is thread safe but has no internal thread synchronization. You may have
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to provide your own locking should you meet any of the thread safety exceptions
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below.
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\fBHandles.\fP You must \fBnever\fP share the same handle in multiple threads.
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You can pass the handles around among threads, but you must never use a single
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handle from more than one thread at any given time.
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\fBShared objects.\fP You can share certain data between multiple handles by
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using the share interface but you must provide your own locking and set
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\fIcurl_share_setopt(3)\fP CURLSHOPT_LOCKFUNC and CURLSHOPT_UNLOCKFUNC.
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.SH TLS
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If you are accessing HTTPS or FTPS URLs in a multi-threaded manner, you are
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then of course using the underlying SSL library multi-threaded and those libs
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might have their own requirements on this issue. You may need to provide one
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or two functions to allow it to function properly:
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.IP OpenSSL
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http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/threads.html#DESCRIPTION
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http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/opensslthreadlock.html
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.IP GnuTLS
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http://gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Thread-safety.html
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.IP NSS
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thread-safe already without anything required.
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.IP PolarSSL
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Required actions unknown.
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.IP yassl
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Required actions unknown.
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.IP axTLS
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Required actions unknown.
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.IP Secure-Transport
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The engine is used by libcurl in a way that is fully thread-safe.
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.IP WinSSL
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The engine is used by libcurl in a way that is fully thread-safe.
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.IP wolfSSL
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The engine is used by libcurl in a way that is fully thread-safe.
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.SH "Other areas of caution"
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.IP Signals
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Signals are used for timing out name resolves (during DNS lookup) - when built
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without using either the c-ares or threaded resolver backends. When using
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multiple threads you should set the \fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL(3)\fP option to 1L for
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all handles. Everything will or might work fine except that timeouts are not
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honored during the DNS lookup - which you can work around by building libcurl
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with c-ares support. c-ares is a library that provides asynchronous name
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resolves. On some platforms, libcurl simply will not function properly
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multi-threaded unless this option is set.
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.IP "Name resolving"
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\fBgethostby* functions and other system calls.\fP These functions, provided
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by your operating system, must be thread safe. It is very important that
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libcurl can find and use thread safe versions of these and other system calls,
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as otherwise it can't function fully thread safe. Some operating systems are
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known to have faulty thread implementations. We have previously received
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problem reports on *BSD (at least in the past, they may be working fine these
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days). Some operating systems that are known to have solid and working thread
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support are Linux, Solaris and Windows.
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.IP "curl_global_* functions"
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These functions are not thread safe. If you are using libcurl with multiple
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threads it is especially important that before use you call
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\fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP or \fIcurl_global_init_mem(3)\fP to explicitly
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initialize the library and its dependents, rather than rely on the "lazy"
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fail-safe initialization that takes place the first time
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\fIcurl_easy_init(3)\fP is called. For an in-depth explanation refer to
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\fIlibcurl(3)\fP section \fBGLOBAL CONSTANTS\fP.
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.IP "Memory functions"
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These functions, provided either by your operating system or your own
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replacements, must be thread safe. You can use \fIcurl_global_init_mem(3)\fP
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to set your own replacement memory functions.
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.IP Non-safe functions
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\fICURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE(3)\fP is not thread-safe.
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