Imported Upstream version 7.53.1

[platform/upstream/curl.git] / docs / libcurl / opts / CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3
index 299c3cc..8cf4d24 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 .\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 .\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 .\" *
 .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ to \fIpath\fP. If \fIpath\fP is NULL, then Unix domain sockets are disabled. An
 empty string will result in an error at some point, it will not disable use of
 Unix domain sockets.
 
-When enabled, cURL will connect to the Unix domain socket instead of
+When enabled, curl will connect to the Unix domain socket instead of
 establishing a TCP connection to a host. Since no TCP connection is created,
-cURL does not need to resolve the DNS hostname in the URL.
+curl does not need to resolve the DNS hostname in the URL.
 
 The maximum path length on Cygwin, Linux and Solaris is 107. On other platforms
 it might be even less.
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ are not supported. Proxy options such as
 .BR CURLOPT_PROXY "(3)
 have no effect either as these are TCP-oriented, and asking a proxy server to
 connect to a certain Unix domain socket is not possible.
+
+The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
+option.
 .SH DEFAULT
 Default is NULL, meaning that no Unix domain sockets are used.
 .SH PROTOCOLS