Commit d6b94488 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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Added blurb about the win32 thing that precents a DLL from using a pointer 

passed to it from user-space!
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docs/curl_easy_setopt.3

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ 
.\" nroff -man [file]

.\" Written by daniel@haxx.se

.\"

.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "28 November 2000" "Curl 7.5" "libcurl Manual"

.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "2 February 2001" "Curl 7.5" "libcurl Manual"

.SH NAME

curl_easy_setopt - Set curl easy-session options

.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ Data pointer to pass instead of FILE * to the file write function. Note that 
if you specify the

.I CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION

, this is the pointer you'll get as input.



NOTE: If you're using libcurl as a win32 .DLL, you MUST use a

.I CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION

if you set the

.I CURLOPT_FILE

option.

.TP

.B CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION

Function pointer that should use match the following prototype:
@@ -53,6 +59,12 @@ Data pointer to pass instead of FILE * to the file read function. Note that if 
you specify the

.I CURLOPT_READFUNCTION

, this is the pointer you'll get as input.



NOTE: If you're using libcurl as a win32 .DLL, you MUST use a

.I CURLOPT_READFUNCTION

if you set the

.I CURLOPT_INFILE

option.

.TP

.B CURLOPT_READFUNCTION

Function pointer that should use match the following prototype: