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  23. .TH CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
  24. .SH NAME
  25. CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE \- file to read random data from
  26. .SH SYNOPSIS
  27. .nf
  28. #include <curl/curl.h>
  29. CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, char *path);
  30. .fi
  31. .SH DESCRIPTION
  32. Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.
  33. Pass a char * to a null-terminated file name. The file might be used to read
  34. from to seed the random engine for SSL and more.
  35. The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
  36. option.
  37. .SH DEFAULT
  38. NULL, not used
  39. .SH PROTOCOLS
  40. All
  41. .SH EXAMPLE
  42. .nf
  43. CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  44. if(curl) {
  45. curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
  46. curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, "junk.txt");
  47. ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  48. curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  49. }
  50. .fi
  51. .SH AVAILABILITY
  52. If built with TLS enabled. Only the OpenSSL backend will use this, and only
  53. with OpenSSL versions before 1.1.0.
  54. This option was deprecated in 7.84.0.
  55. .SH RETURN VALUE
  56. Returns CURLE_OK on success or
  57. CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
  58. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  59. .BR CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET "(3), "