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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2004-12-14 22:47:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2004-12-14 22:47:13 +0000 |
| commit | 9359498b065a98361c25a9635aac1284ea261903 (patch) | |
| tree | deb0bfe19530294af7000d47840533f3eac63139 | |
| parent | 553082e24a01f55e9de0638799ee0452fe826246 (diff) | |
clarify that the app must free the engine list
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3 | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3 index 89c4895c9..488e5cfc8 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" nroff -man [file] .\" $Id$ .\" -.TH curl_easy_getinfo 3 "20 Aug 2003" "libcurl 7.10.8" "libcurl Manual" +.TH curl_easy_getinfo 3 "14 Dec 2004" "libcurl 7.12.3" "libcurl Manual" .SH NAME curl_easy_getinfo - extract information from a curl handle .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -12,13 +12,12 @@ curl_easy_getinfo - extract information from a curl handle .SH DESCRIPTION Request internal information from the curl session with this function. The -third argument -.B MUST -be a pointer to a long, a pointer to a char * or a pointer to a double (as -this documentation describes further down). The data pointed-to will be -filled in accordingly and can be relied upon only if the function returns -CURLE_OK. This function is intended to get used *AFTER* a performed transfer, -all results from this function are undefined until the transfer is completed. +third argument \fBMUST\fP be a pointer to a long, a pointer to a char *, a +pointer to a struct curl_slist * or a pointer to a double (as this +documentation describes further down). The data pointed-to will be filled in +accordingly and can be relied upon only if the function returns CURLE_OK. +This function is intended to get used AFTER a performed transfer, all results +from this function are undefined until the transfer is completed. You should not free the memory returned by this function unless it is explictly mentioned below. @@ -93,7 +92,9 @@ verification that was requested (using the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option to Pass the address of a 'struct curl_slist *' to receive a linked-list of OpenSSL crypto-engines supported. Note that engines are normally implemented in separate dynamic libraries. Hence not all the returned engines may be -available at run-time. +available at run-time. \fBNOTE:\fP you must call \fIcurl_slist_free_all(3)\fP +on the list pointer once you're done with it, as libcurl will not free the +data for you. (Added in 7.12.3) .IP CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD Pass a pointer to a double to receive the content-length of the download. This is the value read from the Content-Length: field. |