On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Andrew Strohman wrote: > >> I would like to be able to cancel a thread that is in the middle of >> curl_easy_perform without leaking memory or sockets. My first attempt was >> to do this: > > > All attempts to kill the thread are futile for reasons you've already > figured out. > > This question is handled in the FAQ: > > http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#How_do_I_stop_an_ongoing_transfe > > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
Thanks for the reply. Does your statement also apply to the multi interface? The way the faq is worded gives me hope that I can safely do pthread_cancel if I'm using the multi interface. Is that right? Thanks, Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
