Commit f44f512f authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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global_init() takes a flag option now, to tell libcurl what _not_ to init. 

it will make it better when the application uses several libs that use
openssl and it also enables us to do the win32 winsock initing in the future
if we want to
parent ce0e2cc0

docs/curl_global_init.3

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.SH SYNOPSIS

.B #include <curl/curl.h>

.sp

.BI "CURLcode curl_global_init(void);"

.BI "CURLcode curl_global_init( " long flags " );"

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.SH DESCRIPTION

This function should be called once (no matter how many threads or libcurl
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ sessions that'll be used) by every application that uses libcurl. 
If this function hasn't been invoked when \fIcurl_easy_init\fP is called, it

will be done automatically by libcurl.



The flags option should be set to zero. It will be used to tell libcurl what

specific features it should \fBnot\fP init.



You must however \fBalways\fP use the \fIcurl_global_cleanup\fP function, as

that cannot be called automatically for you by libcurl.

.SH RETURN VALUE

include/curl/curl.h

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char *curl_escape(char *string, int length);

char *curl_unescape(char *string, int length);



/* curl_global_init() should be invoked exactly once for each application that

   uses libcurl */

CURLcode curl_global_init(long flags);



/* curl_global_cleanup() should be invoked exactly once for each application

   that uses libcurl */

void curl_global_cleanup(void);







/* This is the version number */

#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7.4-pre2"

#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7.4-pre3"

#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070704



/* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */