- I clarified in the docs that CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION should return 0 on success
and 1 on fatal errors. Previously it only mentioned non-zero on fatal
errors. This is a slight change in meaning, but it follows what we've done
elsewhere before and it opens up for LOTS of more useful return codes
whenever we can think of them...
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 5ce2947..9e46861 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@
Changelog
+Daniel Stenberg (6 Apr 2009)
+- I clarified in the docs that CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION should return 0 on success
+ and 1 on fatal errors. Previously it only mentioned non-zero on fatal
+ errors. This is a slight change in meaning, but it follows what we've done
+ elsewhere before and it opens up for LOTS of more useful return codes
+ whenever we can think of them...
+
Yang Tse (2 Apr 2009)
- Fix curl_off_t definition for builds done using Sun compilers and a
non-configured libcurl. In this case curl_off_t data type was gated
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 9599b65..9de7ab6 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -208,9 +208,10 @@
primary connection (meaning the control connection in the FTP case). Future
versions of libcurl may support more purposes. It passes the newly created
socket descriptor so additional setsockopt() calls can be done at the user's
-discretion. A non-zero return code from the callback function will signal an
-unrecoverable error to the library and it will close the socket and return
-\fICURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT\fP. (Option added in 7.15.6.)
+discretion. Return 0 (zero) from the callback on success. Return 1 from the
+callback function to signal an unrecoverable error to the library and it will
+close the socket and return \fICURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT\fP. (Option added in
+7.15.6.)
.IP CURLOPT_SOCKOPTDATA
Pass a pointer that will be untouched by libcurl and passed as the first
argument in the sockopt callback set with \fICURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION\fP.
