Add description in X509_STORE manipulation

[openssl.git] / doc / man3 / X509_STORE_add_cert.pod

diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_STORE_add_cert.pod b/doc/man3/X509_STORE_add_cert.pod
index 8e6ecfa709fe06f0488f94649d186e92fa750656..c0940b96ed1d140db62512aaab97ccf4e6a940d8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/X509_STORE_add_cert.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/X509_STORE_add_cert.pod
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ operate on pointers to B<X509> objects, though.
 
 X509_STORE_add_cert() and X509_STORE_add_crl() add the respective object
 to the B<X509_STORE>'s local storage.  Untrusted objects should not be
-added in this way.
+added in this way.  The added object's reference count is incremented by one,
+hence the caller retains ownership of the object and needs to free it when it
+is no longer needed.
 
 X509_STORE_set_depth(), X509_STORE_set_flags(), X509_STORE_set_purpose(),
 X509_STORE_set_trust(), and X509_STORE_set1_param() set the default values
@@ -90,7 +92,7 @@ L<X509_STORE_get0_param(3)>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 
-Copyright 2017-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright 2017-2019 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
 this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy