From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 06:31:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] http.c: clear the 'finished' member once we are done with it
Message-ID: <q274s3nn-pp38-4sn-53ro-o2q63447r341@unkk.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa6b7lrw6.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, 23 May 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>> It calls into cURL, which I suspect has a multi-threaded mode of
>> operation,
>
> https://curl.se/libcurl/c/threadsafe.html ;-)
>
> My understanding is that what we have is pretty much select() driven 
> single-threaded multi-fd transfer.

Confirmed. libcurl *can* use threads (if built that way), but the only use it 
has for such subthreads is for resolving host names. libcurl, its API and its 
callbacks etc always operate in the same single thread.

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  / daniel.haxx.se