From 6fac5a3e65217f1686927ecc8eda567888b29d4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 16:37:39 +0200 Subject: docs: mention NULL is fine input to several functions Fixes #2837 Closes #2858 Reported-by: Markus Elfring --- docs/libcurl/curl_easy_cleanup.3 | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_easy_cleanup.3') diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_cleanup.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_cleanup.3 index a6969a026..626d98c51 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_cleanup.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_cleanup.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ Any use of the \fBhandle\fP after this function has been called and have returned, is illegal. \fIcurl_easy_cleanup(3)\fP kills the handle and all memory associated with it! +Passing in a NULL pointer in \fIhandle\fP will make this function return +immediately with no action. +.SH "OLD TIMES" For libcurl versions before 7.17,: after you've called this function, you can safely remove all the strings you've previously told libcurl to use, as it won't use them anymore now. -- cgit v1.2.3