Bug 28920

Summary:

curl DNS lookup occurs on multiple threads but storage is not threadsafe

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Kevin Watters <kevinwatters>

Component:

WebKit wx

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

kevino

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

OS:

OS X 10.5

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Use Mutexes and curl_share_setopt to protect libcurl shared data	kevino: review+, kevino: commit-queue-

Kevin Watters

Reported 2009-09-02 13:51:31 PDT

libcurl expects the user of the library to provide synchronization of shared data via the curl_share_setopt function. I'm seeing sporadic crashes in libcurl DNS code in wxWebKit on Windows, where libcurl uses a background thread to do DNS lookups.

Attachments
Use Mutexes and curl_share_setopt to protect libcurl shared data (2.79 KB, patch) 2009-09-02 13:53 PDT, Kevin Watters	kevino: review+ kevino: commit-queue-	Details Formatted Diff Diff
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Kevin Watters

Comment 1 2009-09-02 13:53:07 PDT

Created attachment 38941 [details] Use Mutexes and curl_share_setopt to protect libcurl shared data

Kevin Ollivier

Comment 2 2009-09-02 14:08:52 PDT

Landed in r47993, thanks!

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