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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2021-12-06 15:05:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2021-12-06 16:43:28 +0100 |
| commit | 1a4c14cbac9a29e7a943846cfa59cb404556961e (patch) | |
| tree | 685099120d00f35f881a7ddf033395c4796f1898 | |
| parent | 2b3dd01b779e4eff623a735792a915cde914b74a (diff) | |
| download | curl-1a4c14cbac9a29e7a943846cfa59cb404556961e.tar.gz | |
CURLOPT_STDERR.3: does not work with libcurl as a win32 DLL
This is the exact same limitation already documented for
CURLOPT_WRITEDATA but should be clarified here. It also has a different
work-around.
Reported-by: Stephane Pellegrino
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8102
Closes #8103
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 index c87852764..ad7ed9bb4 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_STDERR, FILE *stream); Pass a FILE * as parameter. Tell libcurl to use this \fIstream\fP instead of stderr when showing the progress meter and displaying \fICURLOPT_VERBOSE(3)\fP data. + +If you are using libcurl as a win32 DLL, this option will cause an exception +and crash in the library since it cannot access a FILE * passed on from the +application. A work-around is to instead use \fICURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3)\fP. .SH DEFAULT stderr .SH PROTOCOLS @@ -54,3 +58,4 @@ Always Returns CURLE_OK .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR CURLOPT_VERBOSE "(3), " CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS "(3), " +.BR CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION "(3) " |