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| author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2016-11-22 11:22:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2016-11-23 00:37:53 +0100 |
| commit | c4c71650bb670ab09ea7cc2e68cd4be7a414c855 (patch) | |
| tree | e46bc5da0bcbb5a9c04b2798b2fd38b4a58515ea | |
| parent | 31b430700af6c2974ead8bdbe02c6f11de81debd (diff) | |
| download | openssl-new-c4c71650bb670ab09ea7cc2e68cd4be7a414c855.tar.gz | |
Clarify what X509_NAME_online does with the given buffer and size
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1980)
(cherry picked from commit 19cb71ef6e414759d737918bab10be2cc1d8bd99)
(cherry picked from commit 793d9b79033c2fffc8e781dab2fd678661b348cd)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod b/doc/crypto/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod index 2579a5dc9d..d73520f35e 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod @@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ can be extensively customised by use of the B<flags> parameter. X509_NAME_print_ex_fp() is identical to X509_NAME_print_ex() except the output is written to FILE pointer B<fp>. -X509_NAME_oneline() prints an ASCII version of B<a> to B<buf>. At most B<size> -bytes will be written. If B<buf> is B<NULL> then a buffer is dynamically allocated -and returned, otherwise B<buf> is returned. +X509_NAME_oneline() prints an ASCII version of B<a> to B<buf>. +If B<buf> is B<NULL> then a buffer is dynamically allocated and returned, and +B<size> is ignored. +Otherwise, at most B<size> bytes will be written, including the ending '\0', +and B<buf> is returned. X509_NAME_print() prints out B<name> to B<bp> indenting each line by B<obase> characters. Multiple lines are used if the output (including indent) exceeds |