1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 3<html><head> 4<title>curl_share_init man page</title> 5<meta name="generator" content="roffit"> 6<STYLE type="text/css"> 7P.level0 { 8 padding-left: 2em; 9} 10 11P.level1 { 12 padding-left: 4em; 13} 14 15P.level2 { 16 padding-left: 6em; 17} 18 19span.emphasis { 20 font-style: italic; 21} 22 23span.bold { 24 font-weight: bold; 25} 26 27span.manpage { 28 font-weight: bold; 29} 30 31h2.nroffsh { 32 background-color: #e0e0e0; 33} 34 35span.nroffip { 36 font-weight: bold; 37 font-size: 120%; 38 font-family: monospace; 39} 40 41p.roffit { 42 text-align: center; 43 font-size: 80%; 44} 45</STYLE> 46</head><body> 47 48<p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2> 49<p class="level0">curl_share_init - Create a shared object <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SYNOPSIS</h2> 50<p class="level0"><span Class="bold">#include <curl/curl.h></span> 51<p class="level0"><span Class="bold">CURLSH *curl_share_init( );</span> 52<p class="level0"><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2> 53<p class="level0">This function returns a CURLSH handle to be used as input to all the other share-functions, sometimes referred to as a share handle in some places in the documentation. This init call MUST have a corresponding call to <span Class="emphasis">curl_share_cleanup</span> when all operations using the share are complete. 54<p class="level0">This <span Class="emphasis">share handle</span> is what you pass to curl using the <span Class="emphasis">CURLOPT_SHARE</span> option with <a class="emphasis" href="./curl_easy_setopt.html">curl_easy_setopt(3)</a>, to make that specific curl handle use the data in this share. <a name="RETURN"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">RETURN VALUE</h2> 55<p class="level0">If this function returns NULL, something went wrong (out of memory, etc.) and therefore the share object was not created. <a name="SEE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SEE ALSO</h2> 56<p class="level0"><a class="manpage" href="./curl_share_cleanup.html">curl_share_cleanup (3)</a> <a class="manpage" href="./curl_share_setopt.html"> curl_share_setopt (3)</a> 57<p class="level0"><p class="roffit"> 58 This HTML page was made with <a href="http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/roffit/">roffit</a>. 59</body></html> 60