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Re: Documentation Issue: WRITEFUNCTION, HEADERFUNCTION, et all vs man fwrite(3)

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 14:28:12 -0800

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 02:14:29PM -0800, John Utz wrote:
> So, based on the fwrite manpage, this function should be returning the value of
> nmemb, not size*nmemb as the curl manpages and sample code seem to suggest.
>
> It seems to me that both documents can not be correct. Am I misunderstanding
> something?

As long as size == 1, they're both correct :-) That's likely the most common
case, in fact, so common that the other cases were probably forgotten at
some point along the line.

>>> Dan
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