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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-05-28 15:30:38 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-05-28 15:30:38 +0000
commitf44f512f243e6f0d19aa0a1468b84b67db7cb2f4 (patch)
treeb047200c8e09b710059b24933fb7223fbefab3c9 /docs/curl_global_init.3
parentce0e2cc017116611f478a6058494c7dc37a609cb (diff)
global_init() takes a flag option now, to tell libcurl what _not_ to init.
it will make it better when the application uses several libs that use openssl and it also enables us to do the win32 winsock initing in the future if we want to
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diff --git a/docs/curl_global_init.3 b/docs/curl_global_init.3
index 228cd4c5e..26b50e643 100644
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+++ b/docs/curl_global_init.3
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ curl_global_init - Global libcurl initialisation
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <curl/curl.h>
.sp
-.BI "CURLcode curl_global_init(void);"
+.BI "CURLcode curl_global_init( " long flags " );"
.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
This function should be called once (no matter how many threads or libcurl
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ 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.
+The flags option should be set to zero. It will be used to tell libcurl what
+specific features it should \fBnot\fP init.
+
You must however \fBalways\fP use the \fIcurl_global_cleanup\fP function, as
that cannot be called automatically for you by libcurl.
.SH RETURN VALUE