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authorSteve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>2014-12-26 20:45:21 +0000
committerSteve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>2014-12-26 21:42:44 +0000
commit1abe65d928440b3b23d25746b966dd4169c358b9 (patch)
treea486ff20aee5dda2a65401d4e6da76852fedf354 /docs/libcurl/opts
parentb7f740f2fc6c9b5e96ccbc013aeaae4093a9f1ed (diff)
code/docs: Use Unix rather than UNIX to avoid use of the trademark
Use Unix when generically writing about Unix based systems as UNIX is the trademark and should only be used in a particular product's name.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.314
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3
index f65676364..a659cd2ca 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3
@@ -22,18 +22,18 @@
.\"
.TH CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH 3 "09 Oct 2014" "libcurl 7.40.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
.SH NAME
-CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH \- set UNIX domain socket
+CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH \- set Unix domain socket
.SH SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH, char *path);
.SH DESCRIPTION
-Enables the use of UNIX domain sockets as connection endpoint and sets the path
-to \fIpath\fP. If \fIpath\fP is NULL, then UNIX domain sockets are disabled. An
+Enables the use of Unix domain sockets as connection endpoint and sets the path
+to \fIpath\fP. If \fIpath\fP is NULL, then Unix domain sockets are disabled. An
empty string will result in an error at some point, it will not disable use of
-UNIX domain sockets.
+Unix domain sockets.
-When enabled, cURL will connect to the UNIX domain socket instead of
+When enabled, cURL will connect to the Unix domain socket instead of
establishing a TCP connection to a host. Since no TCP connection is created,
cURL does not need to resolve the DNS hostname in the URL.
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ Proxy and TCP options such as
are not supported. Proxy options such as
.BR CURLOPT_PROXY "(3)
have no effect either as these are TCP-oriented, and asking a proxy server to
-connect to a certain UNIX domain socket is not possible.
+connect to a certain Unix domain socket is not possible.
.SH DEFAULT
-Default is NULL, meaning that no UNIX domain sockets are used.
+Default is NULL, meaning that no Unix domain sockets are used.
.SH PROTOCOLS
All protocols except for file:// and FTP are supported in theory. HTTP, IMAP,
POP3 and SMTP should in particular work (including their SSL/TLS variants).