From 19cb71ef6e414759d737918bab10be2cc1d8bd99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Levitte Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:22:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify what X509_NAME_online does with the given buffer and size Reviewed-by: Rich Salz (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1980) --- doc/man3/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod b/doc/man3/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod index eba6276bee..3e9caa889c 100644 --- a/doc/man3/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod +++ b/doc/man3/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod @@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ can be extensively customised by use of the B parameter. X509_NAME_print_ex_fp() is identical to X509_NAME_print_ex() except the output is written to FILE pointer B. -X509_NAME_oneline() prints an ASCII version of B to B. At most B -bytes will be written. If B is B then a buffer is dynamically allocated -and returned, otherwise B is returned. +X509_NAME_oneline() prints an ASCII version of B to B. +If B is B then a buffer is dynamically allocated and returned, and +B is ignored. +Otherwise, at most B bytes will be written, including the ending '\0', +and B is returned. X509_NAME_print() prints out B to B indenting each line by B characters. Multiple lines are used if the output (including indent) exceeds -- 2.34.1