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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-11-13 07:20:37 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-11-13 07:20:37 +0000
commitfc07eb45f4118524f6859102a00f5327081983b2 (patch)
tree44da1164e3269c72c910f46185c1cad6d604aeda
parentc7cdb0f266b382211d11e740cf1d6102ede3acd5 (diff)
point out that calling this function more than once is a sever error
-rw-r--r--docs/curl_global_init.38
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl_global_init.3 b/docs/curl_global_init.3
index c5008f7ec..ea8419f49 100644
--- a/docs/curl_global_init.3
+++ b/docs/curl_global_init.3
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
.\" nroff -man [file]
.\" $Id$
.\"
-.TH curl_global_init 3 "14 August 2001" "libcurl 7.8.1" "libcurl Manual"
+.TH curl_global_init 3 "13 Nov 2001" "libcurl 7.9.1" "libcurl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl_global_init - Global libcurl initialisation
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ curl_global_init - Global libcurl initialisation
.BI "CURLcode curl_global_init(long " flags ");"
.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
-This function should be called once (no matter how many threads or libcurl
-sessions that'll be used) by every application that uses libcurl.
+This function should only be called once (no matter how many threads or
+libcurl sessions that'll be used) by every application that uses libcurl.
If this function hasn't been invoked when \fIcurl_easy_init\fP is called, it
will be done automatically by libcurl.
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ init, as described below. Set the desired bits by ORing the values together.
You must however \fBalways\fP use the \fIcurl_global_cleanup\fP function, as
that cannot be called automatically for you by libcurl.
+Calling this function more than once will cause unpredictable results.
+
This function was added in libcurl 7.8.
.SH FLAGS
.TP 5