From 526c61c6574db5fcc1fc9fd7981f5192f082573e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:50:15 +0000 Subject: global dns cache is not nice, we consider it obsolete starting now --- docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3