From: Daniel Gustafsson Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:47:37 +0000 (+0200) Subject: docs: fix inconsistencies in EGDSOCKET documentation X-Git-Tag: curl-7_78_0~40 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=21ef78b5564575d12ab71527c6416b1a6a4902cc;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git docs: fix inconsistencies in EGDSOCKET documentation Only the OpenSSL backend actually use the EGDSOCKET, and also use TLS consistently rather than mixing SSL and TLS. While there, also fix a minor spelling nit. Closes: #7391 Reviewed-by: Jay Satiro --- diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET.3 index f7cb53983d..d1cc2244a3 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2021, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET \- set EGD socket path CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, char *path); .SH DESCRIPTION Pass a char * to the null-terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon -socket. It will be used to seed the random engine for SSL. +socket. It will be used to seed the random engine for TLS. The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option. @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ if(curl) { } .fi .SH AVAILABILITY -If built TLS enabled. Only the OpenSSL and GnuTLS backends will use this. +If built with TLS enabled. Only the OpenSSL backend will use this. .SH RETURN VALUE Returns CURLE_OK if TLS is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.