My question is very simple as stated in title. However I rephrase it again.
I want to download multiple sites using php-curl. I'll run it from console. I am going to use curl_multi_exec to download all the sites. Now the question, will curl create different threads for each of the request?
I know I can achieve it by forking multiple processes. But thats not threading. I dont want threading. I want to know if its multi-threaded?
The answer is yes. But a common problem is name resolving. By the default the Linux gethostbyname() is a synchronous function and having X threads instead of one won't help, because they are executed in serial, because they are blocking behind resolving DNS. On Windows DNS resolving is asynchrous by default, however.
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