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| .TH CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE 3 "September 08, 2021" "libcurl 7.80.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" |
| |
| .SH NAME |
| CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE \- file to read random data from |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| #include <curl/curl.h> |
| |
| CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, char *path); |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| Pass a char * to a null-terminated file name. The file might be used to read |
| from to seed the random engine for SSL and more. |
| |
| The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this |
| option. |
| .SH DEFAULT |
| NULL, not used |
| .SH PROTOCOLS |
| All |
| .SH EXAMPLE |
| .nf |
| CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); |
| if(curl) { |
| curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/"); |
| curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, "junk.txt"); |
| ret = curl_easy_perform(curl); |
| curl_easy_cleanup(curl); |
| } |
| .fi |
| .SH AVAILABILITY |
| Always |
| .SH RETURN VALUE |
| Returns CURLE_OK on success or |
| CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET "(3), " |
