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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 3153042d4..d92dd5396 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -331,10 +331,14 @@ thread-safe and this will use a global variable. to using the share interface instead! See \fICURLOPT_SHARE\fP and \fIcurl_share_init(3)\fP. .IP CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE -Pass a long specifying your preferred size for the receive buffer in libcurl. -The main point of this would be that the write callback gets called more often -and with smaller chunks. This is just treated as a request, not an order. You -cannot be guaranteed to actually get the given size. (Added in 7.10) +Pass a long specifying your preferred size (in bytes) for the receive buffer +in libcurl. The main point of this would be that the write callback gets +called more often and with smaller chunks. This is just treated as a request, +not an order. You cannot be guaranteed to actually get the given size. (Added +in 7.10) + +This size is by default set as big as possible (CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE), so it +only makse sense to use this option if you want it smaller. .IP CURLOPT_PORT Pass a long specifying what remote port number to connect to, instead of the one specified in the URL or the default port for the used protocol. |