From aa0e32060e59f8df3241cf8ab9a78c6994dc9175 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 11:19:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] CURLE_FAILED_INIT is returend when an unknown option is set

---
 docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index e486a0032..095c1d7b5 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -964,5 +964,9 @@ standard for details.
 CURLE_OK (zero) means that the option was set properly, non-zero means an
 error occurred as \fI<curl/curl.h>\fP defines. See the \fIlibcurl-errors(3)\fP
 man page for the full list with descriptions.
+
+If you try to set an option that libcurl doesn't know about, perhaps because
+the library is too old to support it or the option was removed in a recent
+version, this function will return \fICURLE_FAILED_INIT\fP.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR curl_easy_init "(3), " curl_easy_cleanup "(3), "