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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2001-11-13 07:20:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2001-11-13 07:20:37 +0000 |
| commit | fc07eb45f4118524f6859102a00f5327081983b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 44da1164e3269c72c910f46185c1cad6d604aeda /docs | |
| parent | c7cdb0f266b382211d11e740cf1d6102ede3acd5 (diff) | |
point out that calling this function more than once is a sever error
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl_global_init.3 | 8 |
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 |