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curl/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_init.3
Daniel Stenberg 4c35a40858 Bryan Henderson turned the 'initialized' variable for curl_global_init()
into a counter, and thus you can now do multiple curl_global_init() and you
are then supposed to do the same amount of calls to curl_global_cleanup().
Bryan also updated the docs accordingly.
2006-01-15 23:55:53 +00:00

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.\" $Id$
.\"
.TH curl_easy_init 3 "4 March 2002" "libcurl 7.8.1" "libcurl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl_easy_init - Start a libcurl easy session
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <curl/curl.h>
.BI "CURL *curl_easy_init( );"
.SH DESCRIPTION
This function must be the first function to call, and it returns a CURL easy
handle that you must use as input to other easy-functions. curl_easy_init
initializes curl and this call \fBMUST\fP have a corresponding call to
\fIcurl_easy_cleanup(3)\fP when the operation is complete.
If you did not already call \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP,
\fIcurl_easy_init(3)\fP does it automatically.
This may be lethal in multi-threaded cases, since \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP is
not thread-safe, and it may result in resource problems because there is
no corresponding cleanup.
You are strongly advised to not allow this automatic behaviour, by
calling \fIcurl_global_init(3)\fP yourself properly.
See the description in \fBlibcurl\fP(3) of global environment
requirements for details of how to use this function.
.SH RETURN VALUE
If this function returns NULL, something went wrong and you cannot use the
other curl functions.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR curl_easy_cleanup "(3), " curl_global_init "(3), " curl_easy_reset "(3)"