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+.TH GNURLOPT_EGDSOCKET 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+.SH NAME
+CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET \- set EGD socket path
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+#include <gnurl/curl.h>
+
+CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, char *path);
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Pass a char * to the zero terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon
+socket. It will be used to seed the random engine for SSL.
+
+The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
+option.
+.SH DEFAULT
+NULL
+.SH PROTOCOLS
+All TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.
+.SH EXAMPLE
+.nf
+CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
+if(curl) {
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, "/var/egd.socket");
+ ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+ curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+}
+.fi
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+If built TLS enabled. Only the OpenSSL and GnuTLS backends will use this.
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+Returns CURLE_OK if TLS is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or
+CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE "(3), "