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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2021-08-26 07:51:19 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2021-08-26 09:18:42 +0200
commit1a042be2703bc14037399ea21e23c69b0808c764 (patch)
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parent92f2a0a06b699c572d2f6919bcffd630e8a2ead9 (diff)
downloadcurl-1a042be2703bc14037399ea21e23c69b0808c764.tar.gz
curl_easy_setopt: tweak the string copy wording
Reported-by: Yaobin Wen Fixes #7632 Closes #7634
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.310
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index cd1bf1c85..b83f5b635 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ you must change them between the transfers. You can optionally reset all
options back to internal default with \fIcurl_easy_reset(3)\fP.
Strings passed to libcurl as 'char *' arguments, are copied by the library;
-thus the string storage associated to the pointer argument may be overwritten
-after \fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP returns. The only exception to this rule is
-really \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3)\fP, but the alternative that copies the string
-\fICURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS(3)\fP has some usage characteristics you need to
-read up on. This function does not accept input strings longer than
+the string storage associated to the pointer argument may be discarded or
+reused after \fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP returns. The only exception to this
+rule is really \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3)\fP, but the alternative that copies
+the string \fICURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS(3)\fP has some usage characteristics you
+need to read up on. This function does not accept input strings longer than
\fBCURL_MAX_INPUT_LENGTH\fP (8 MB).
The order in which the options are set does not matter.