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CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE - file to read random data from

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  DEFAULT  DEPRECATED  AVAILABILITY  RETURN VALUE  SEE ALSO 

NAME

CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE − file to read random data from

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, char *path);

DESCRIPTION

Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.

DEFAULT

NULL, not used

DEPRECATED

Deprecated since 7.84.0.

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.7

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non−zero means an error occurred, see libcurl−errors(3).

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)


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