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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 15:05:16 +0100 |
| commit | 5c1b6f140463e29b134244ad60027d12f669cc1c (patch) | |
| tree | 73609d34411f8fd935f69f1b91fb5d2485cabbe0 | |
| parent | 2b3dd01b779e4eff623a735792a915cde914b74a (diff) | |
| download | curl-bagder/docs-curlopt_stderr.tar.gz | |
CURLOPT_STDERR.3: does not work with libcurl as a win32 DLLbagder/docs-curlopt_stderr
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
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 index c87852764..8ed6003ad 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ 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 a the +\fICURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3)\fP. .SH DEFAULT stderr .SH PROTOCOLS @@ -54,3 +59,4 @@ Always Returns CURLE_OK .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR CURLOPT_VERBOSE "(3), " CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS "(3), " +.BR CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION "(3) " |