curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET.md
Daniel Stenberg e3fe020089
docs/libcurl: generate PROTOCOLS from meta-data
Remove the PROTOCOLS section from the source files completely and
instead generate them based on the header data in the curldown files.

It also generates TLS backend information for options marked for TLS as
protocol.

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c SPDX-License-Identifier Title Section Source See-also Protocol TLS-backend
Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. curl CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET 3 libcurl
CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE (3)
TLS
OpenSSL

NAME

CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET - EGD socket path

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

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

DESCRIPTION

Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.

Pass a char pointer to the null-terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. It is used to seed the random engine for TLS.

The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

DEFAULT

NULL

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, "/var/egd.socket");
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

AVAILABILITY

Only with OpenSSL versions before 1.1.0.

This option was deprecated in 7.84.0.

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.