CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT(3)

💅 CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT

okay so bestie, this one's from the libcurl crew — it lives in the Library Functions Manual section, and it's genuinely one of those tiny options that saves your whole vibe when you're bailing out of a program. no cap. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT — literally just lets libcurl dip out fast 💨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT,
                          long value);

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So you pass a long as the parameter, and when it's 1L it means: when libcurl is recovering from a timeout, skip the lengthy cleanups. Those cleanups exist to avoid all kinds of leaks (threads and stuff, iykyk), but here's the thing — the caller program is about to call exit() anyway, so who even cares 😭

This is what gives you a swift termination after, say, a DNS timeout — by canceling and/or forgetting about a resolver thread. iconic behaviour, honestly. the trade-off? a possible (though short-lived) leak of associated resources. so like… a tiny mess, but it's not gonna linger. 🙈

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⭐ DEFAULT ⭐

0

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🦋 PROTOCOLS 🦋

This functionality affects all supported protocols — every single one, bestie. 👑

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🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT, 1L);
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

Added in curl 7.87.0 — so if your curl is older than that, this option is a no-show, sorry babe 💀

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💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK bestie 🎉 — non-zero means an error occurred, so go check libcurl-errors(3).

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• CURLOPT_FAILONERROR(3)
• CURLOPT_RESOLVE(3)

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k that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — brought to you by libcurl, dated 2026-10-12, straight out of the CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT(3) manual. go forth and exit quickly, queen 🧚‍♀️✨