CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE - file to read random data from

Added in curl 7.7

NULL, not used

Deprecated since 7.84.0.

Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.

CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE - file to read random data from

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error. CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3) libcurl 2025-06-16 CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE(3)

#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, char *path);