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richardthe3rd 9fb5a943f5 CURLOPT_PRIVATE.3: fix grammar
- Change "never does nothing" double-negative to "never does anything".

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2168
2017-12-08 18:55:33 -05:00

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.TH CURLOPT_PRIVATE 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
.SH NAME
CURLOPT_PRIVATE \- store a private pointer
.SH SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PRIVATE, void *pointer);
.SH DESCRIPTION
Pass a void * as parameter, pointing to data that should be associated with
this curl handle. The pointer can subsequently be retrieved using
\fIcurl_easy_getinfo(3)\fP with the CURLINFO_PRIVATE option. libcurl itself
never does anything with this data.
.SH DEFAULT
NULL
.SH PROTOCOLS
All
.SH EXAMPLE
.nf
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
struct private secrets;
if(curl) {
struct private *extracted;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");
/* store a pointer to our private struct */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PRIVATE, &secrets);
curl_easy_perform(curl);
/* we can extract the private pointer again too */
curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_PRIVATE, &extracted);
}
.fi
.SH AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.10.3
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR CURLOPT_VERBOSE "(3), " CURLOPT_STDERR "(3), "