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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.35
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index a06f259d0..157b3b62d 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -803,8 +803,9 @@ support only works for FTP.
.SH OTHER OPTIONS
.IP CURLOPT_PRIVATE
Pass a char * as parameter, pointing to data that should be associated with
-the curl handle. The pointer can be subsequently retrieved using the
-CURLINFO_PRIVATE options to curl_easy_getinfo. (Added in 7.10.3)
+this curl handle. The pointer can subsequently be retrieved using
+\fIcurl_easy_getinfo\fP with the CURLINFO_PRIVATE option. libcurl itself does
+nothing with this data. (Added in 7.10.3)
.SH RETURN VALUE
CURLE_OK (zero) means that the option was set properly, non-zero means an
error occurred as \fI<curl/curl.h>\fP defines. See the \fIlibcurl-errors.3\fP