Loading docs/FAQ +14 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ FAQ 5.15 How do I get an FTP directory listing? 5.16 I want a different time-out! 5.17 Can I write a server with libcurl? 5.18 Does libcurl use threads? 6. License Issues 6.1 I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library? Loading Loading @@ -1365,6 +1366,19 @@ FAQ server for. And there are really good stand-alone ones that have been tested and proven for many years. There's no need for you to reinvent them! 5.18 Does libcurl use threads? Put simply: no, libcurl will execute in the same thread you call it in. All callbacks will be called in the same thread as the one you call libcurl in. If you want to avoid your thread to be blocked by the libcurl call, you make sure you use the non-blocking API which will do transfers asynchronously - but still in the same single thread. libcurl will potentially internally use threads for name resolving, if it was built to work like that, but in those cases it'll create the child threads by itself and they will only be used and then killed internally by libcurl and never exposed to the outside. 6. License Issues Loading Loading
docs/FAQ +14 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ FAQ 5.15 How do I get an FTP directory listing? 5.16 I want a different time-out! 5.17 Can I write a server with libcurl? 5.18 Does libcurl use threads? 6. License Issues 6.1 I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library? Loading Loading @@ -1365,6 +1366,19 @@ FAQ server for. And there are really good stand-alone ones that have been tested and proven for many years. There's no need for you to reinvent them! 5.18 Does libcurl use threads? Put simply: no, libcurl will execute in the same thread you call it in. All callbacks will be called in the same thread as the one you call libcurl in. If you want to avoid your thread to be blocked by the libcurl call, you make sure you use the non-blocking API which will do transfers asynchronously - but still in the same single thread. libcurl will potentially internally use threads for name resolving, if it was built to work like that, but in those cases it'll create the child threads by itself and they will only be used and then killed internally by libcurl and never exposed to the outside. 6. License Issues Loading
