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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2004-03-01 15:50:15 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2004-03-01 15:50:15 +0000
commit526c61c6574db5fcc1fc9fd7981f5192f082573e (patch)
tree313f1e3da337c73fb3bbdc0a068bcbb2d871447a /docs
parentfd6ec05916148d4fb38894000b80ba6732de06a8 (diff)
global dns cache is not nice, we consider it obsolete starting now
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.34
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 4bd570b6e..afe04b29c 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -283,6 +283,10 @@ libcurl caches this info for 60 seconds.
Pass a long. If the value is non-zero, it tells curl to use a global DNS cache
that will survive between easy handle creations and deletions. This is not
thread-safe and this will use a global varible.
+
+\fBWARNING:\fP this option is considered obsolete. Stop using it. Switch over
+to using the share interface instead! See \fICURLOPT_SHARE\fP and
+\fIcurl_share_init(3)\fP.
.IP CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE
Pass a long specifying your prefered size for the receive buffer in libcurl.
The main point of this would be that the write callback gets called more often