- Changed the description of CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO to make it clear that the

  errno is not reset on success.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 3646b0752..507cf7300 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Michal Marek (15 Jul 2009)
+- Changed the description of CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO to make it clear that the
+  errno is not reset on success.
+
 Guenter Knauf (14 Jul 2009)
 - renamed generated config.h to curl_config.h to avoid any future clashes
   with config.h from other projects.
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
index 29f0f44ad..e227f0790 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
@@ -159,7 +159,8 @@ Pass a pointer to a long to receive a bitmask indicating the authentication
 method(s) available for your proxy authentication.  (Added in 7.10.8)
 .IP CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO
 Pass a pointer to a long to receive the errno variable from a connect failure.
-(Added in 7.12.2)
+Note that the value is only set on failure, it is not reset upon a
+successfull operation.  (Added in 7.12.2)
 .IP CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS
 Pass a pointer to a long to receive how many new connections libcurl had to
 create to achieve the previous transfer (only the successful connects are