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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl.3 index 39bcccd4..6618734b 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl.3 @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms -.\" * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. +.\" * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is @@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Unix-like operating system that ship libcurl as part of their distributions often don't provide the curl-config tool, but simply install the library and headers in the common path for this purpose. -Many Linux and similar sytems use pkg-config to provide build and link options -about libraries and libcurl supports that as well. +Many Linux and similar systems use pkg-config to provide build and link +options about libraries and libcurl supports that as well. .SH "LIBCURL SYMBOL NAMES" All public functions in the libcurl interface are prefixed with 'curl_' (with a lowercase c). You can find other functions in the library source code, but @@ -111,13 +111,8 @@ libcurl works .B exactly the same, on any of the platforms it compiles and builds on. .SH "THREADS" -Never ever call curl-functions simultaneously using the same handle from -several threads. libcurl is thread-safe and can be used in any number of -threads, but you must use separate curl handles if you want to use libcurl in -more than one thread simultaneously. - -The global environment functions are not thread-safe. See \fBGLOBAL -CONSTANTS\fP below for details. +libcurl is thread safe but there are a few exceptions. Refer to +\fIlibcurl-thread(3)\fP for more information. .SH "PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS" Persistent connections means that libcurl can re-use the same connection for @@ -199,6 +194,9 @@ object as the program starts up and the destructor as it terminates. As the author of this libcurl-using module, you can make the constructor call \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP and the destructor call \fIcurl_global_cleanup(3)\fP and satisfy libcurl's requirements without your user having to think about it. +(Caveat: If you are initializing libcurl from a Windows DLL you should not +initialize it from DllMain or a static initializer because Windows holds the +loader lock during that time and it could cause a deadlock.) \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP has an argument that tells what particular parts of the global constant environment to set up. In order to successfully use any |