Subject: Re: [PATCH] http.c: clear the 'finished' member once we are done with it

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 10:45:08 -0700

Daniel Stenberg <[email-masked]> writes:

> 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.

Thanks.  

It always is nice to have the authority/expert readily answering our
stupid questions ;-)