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Stefan Eissing 88fc6c491f
threaded-resolver: fix shutdown
Changed strategy to start up and terminate resolver thread.

When starting up:

Start the thread with mutex acquired, wait for signal from thread that
it started and has incremented the ref counter. Thread set
pthread_cancel() to disabled before that and only enables cancelling
during resolving itself. This assure that the ref counter is correct and
the unlinking of the resolve context always happens.

When shutting down resolving:

If ref counting shows thread has finished, join it, free everything. If
thread has not finished, try pthread_cancel() (non Windows), but keep
the thread handle around.

When destroying resolving:

Shutdown first, then, if the thread is still there and 'quick_exit' is
not set, join it and free everything. This might occur a delay if
getaddrinfo() hangs and cannot be interrupted by pthread_cancel().

Destroying resolving happens when another resolve is started on an
easy handle or when the easy handle is closed.

Add test795 to check that connect timeout triggers correctly
when resolving is delayed. Add debug env var `CURL_DNS_DELAY_MS`
to simulate delays in resolving.

Fix test1557 to set `quick_exit` and use `xxx.invalid` as domain
instead of `nothing` that was leading to hangers in CI.

Closes #18263
2025-08-21 09:26:49 +02:00
.circleci CI: sync curl download command-line options 2025-07-07 17:34:47 +02:00
.github GHA/windows: install Win32::Process* perl modules 2025-08-19 10:07:25 +02:00
CMake mbedtls: bump minimum version required to 3.2.0 2025-08-13 09:09:45 +02:00
docs threaded-resolver: fix shutdown 2025-08-21 09:26:49 +02:00
include websocket: support CURLOPT_READFUNCTION 2025-08-11 23:28:54 +02:00
lib threaded-resolver: fix shutdown 2025-08-21 09:26:49 +02:00
LICENSES copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges 2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
m4 cmake: fix to restrict SystemConfiguration to macOS 2025-08-03 23:35:28 +02:00
packages tidy-up: more whitespace/indent, comments 2025-07-25 11:47:51 +02:00
plan9 copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges 2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
projects checksrc-all: rewrite in Perl, remove checksrc.bat 2025-07-11 12:28:46 +02:00
scripts threaded-resolver: fix shutdown 2025-08-21 09:26:49 +02:00
src tool_cb_wrt: stop alloc/free for every chunk windows console output 2025-08-11 09:37:29 +02:00
tests threaded-resolver: fix shutdown 2025-08-21 09:26:49 +02:00
winbuild vquic: drop msh3 2025-07-27 17:57:17 +02:00
.dir-locals.el copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges 2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges 2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
.gitattributes winbuild: MS-DOS batch tidy-ups 2024-07-02 19:26:15 +02:00
.gitignore tidy-up: .gitignore lines mostly 2025-01-27 20:59:46 +01:00
.mailmap ws: tests and fixes 2025-06-02 11:15:38 +02:00
acinclude.m4 build: if no perl, fix to use the pre-built hugehelp, if present 2025-08-01 23:54:12 +02:00
appveyor.sh cmake: set CURL_DIRSUFFIX automatically in multi-config builds 2025-08-10 00:33:45 +02:00
appveyor.yml windows: fix if_nametoindex() detection with autotools, improve with cmake 2025-07-21 13:30:01 +02:00
buildconf copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges 2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
CHANGES.md CHANGES: rename to CHANGES.md, no longer generated 2024-08-01 13:37:12 +02:00
CMakeLists.txt mbedtls: bump minimum version required to 3.2.0 2025-08-13 09:09:45 +02:00
configure.ac configure: if no perl, disable unity and shell completion, related tidy ups 2025-08-04 14:55:10 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: bump copyright year range to 1996 - 2025 2025-01-01 21:12:12 +01:00
curl-config.in curl-config: remove X prefix use 2025-08-04 10:01:07 +02:00
Dockerfile Dockerfile: update debian:bookworm-slim Docker digest to b1a7414 2025-08-14 10:32:59 +02:00
GIT-INFO.md build: drop tool_hugehelp.c.cvs, tidy up macros, drop buildconf.bat 2025-01-26 14:22:49 +01:00
libcurl.pc.in configure: do not echo most inherited LDFLAGS to config files 2024-11-14 09:55:45 +01:00
Makefile.am configure: if no perl, disable unity and shell completion, related tidy ups 2025-08-04 14:55:10 +02:00
README docs: minor grammar fixes 2022-09-29 10:44:12 +02:00
README.md spacecheck.pl: drop more exceptions 2025-05-13 16:01:07 +02:00
RELEASE-NOTES RELEASE-NOTES: synced 2025-08-21 09:10:41 +02:00
renovate.json ci: fix ldap install location and add renovate rule for openldap 2025-07-15 14:54:44 +01:00
REUSE.toml checksrc: reduce exceptions, apply again to curlx 2025-06-27 17:33:35 +02:00
SECURITY.md docs: Clarify OpenSSF Best Practices vs Scorecard 2024-08-22 11:50:20 +02:00

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