On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Alex Loukissas wrote:
>
>>> Why can't you just use the existing void * argument?
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this contain the data read by curl to
>> be written to the file? At least this is what's passed onto fwrite( ).
>
> http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTWRITEFUNCTION
>
> And the quote from the above link:
>
>  "Set the userdata argument with the CURLOPT_WRITEDATA option"
>
> IOW: no, you set that pointer yourself to whatever you want. It is only if
> you don't use the callback it should be a FILE *.

Actually, that's all true. I missed that part, was treating the second
void* as FILE* all along without noticing it was more generic than
this. You can mark this thread as closed.

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