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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLOPT_SEEKDATA (3)

Name

CURLOPT_SEEKDATA - pointer passed to the seek callback

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SEEKDATA, void *pointer);

Description

CURLOPT_SEEKDATA(3)        curl_easy_setopt options        CURLOPT_SEEKDATA(3)



NAME
       CURLOPT_SEEKDATA - pointer passed to the seek callback

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SEEKDATA, void *pointer);

DESCRIPTION
       Data pointer to pass to the seek callback function. If you use the CUR-
       LOPT_SEEKFUNCTION(3) option, this is the pointer you will get as input.

DEFAULT
       If you do not set this, NULL is passed to the callback.

PROTOCOLS
       HTTP, FTP, SFTP

EXAMPLE
       static int seek_cb(void *userp, curl_off_t offset, int origin)
       {
         struct data *d = (struct data *)userp;
         lseek(d->our_fd, offset, origin);
         return CURL_SEEKFUNC_OK;
       }

       {
         struct data seek_data;
         curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION, seek_cb);
         curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SEEKDATA, &seek_data);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.18.0

RETURN VALUE
ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | web/curl         |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_STDERR(3), CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3),



NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle  Solaris  can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source      was      downloaded       from        https://curl.se/down-
       load/curl-7.83.1.tar.bz2.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://curl.haxx.se/.



libcurl 7.83.1                 November 26, 2021           CURLOPT_SEEKDATA(3)