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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2007-08-01 21:20:01 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2007-08-01 21:20:01 +0000
commit50c10aa5bf545eedfdbe561116656b6ec12654cd (patch)
treeae3de37fd3877d42ffd4c0cdcd03c4530e68a326 /docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
parent006878686cfd3faa9eca92fc8fe60cb8f8073a59 (diff)
Patrick Monnerat and I modified libcurl so that now it *copies* all strings
passed to it with curl_easy_setopt()! Previously it has always just refered to the data, forcing the user to keep the data around until libcurl is done with it. That is now history and libcurl will instead clone the given strings and keep private copies.
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
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+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
@@ -133,7 +133,9 @@ protocol used doesn't support this.
.IP CURLINFO_PRIVATE
Pass a pointer to a 'char *' to receive the pointer to the private data
associated with the curl handle (set with the CURLOPT_PRIVATE option to
-\fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP). (Added in 7.10.3)
+\fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP). Please note that for internal reasons, the
+value is returned as a 'char *', although effectively being a 'void *'.
+(Added in 7.10.3)
.IP CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_AVAIL
Pass a pointer to a long to receive a bitmask indicating the authentication
method(s) available. The meaning of the bits is explained in the