Data are received in blocks from the peer. Therefore data can be buffered
inside B<ssl> and are ready for immediate retrieval with
-L<SSL_read(3)|SSL_read(3)>.
+L<SSL_read(3)>.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
SSL_pending() takes into account only bytes from the TLS/SSL record
that is currently being processed (if any). If the B<SSL> object's
-I<read_ahead> flag is set, additional protocol bytes may have been
-read containing more TLS/SSL records; these are ignored by
+I<read_ahead> flag is set (see
+L<SSL_CTX_set_read_ahead(3)>), additional protocol
+bytes may have been read containing more TLS/SSL records; these are ignored by
SSL_pending().
-Up to OpenSSL 0.9.6, SSL_pending() does not check if the record type
-of pending data is application data.
-
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<SSL_read(3)|SSL_read(3)>, L<ssl(3)|ssl(3)>
+L<SSL_read(3)>,
+L<SSL_CTX_set_read_ahead(3)>, L<ssl(3)>
=cut