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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_STDERR.3 | 6 |
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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) " |