Deprecate NCONF_WIN32() function

[openssl.git] / doc / man5 / config.pod

diff --git a/doc/man5/config.pod b/doc/man5/config.pod
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@@ -507,6 +507,17 @@ Files are loaded in a single pass. This means that an variable expansion
 will only work if the variables referenced are defined earlier in the
 file.
 
 will only work if the variables referenced are defined earlier in the
 file.
 

+=head1 HISTORY
+
+An undocumented API, NCONF_WIN32(), used a slightly different set
+of parsing rules there were intended to be tailored to
+the Microsoft Windows platform.
+Specifically, the backslash character was not an escape character and
+could be used in pathnames, only the double-quote character was recognized,
+and comments began with a semi-colon.
+This function was deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0; applications with
+configuration files using that syntax will have to be modified.
+

 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 L<x509(1)>, L<req(1)>, L<ca(1)>, L<fips_config(5)>
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 L<x509(1)>, L<req(1)>, L<ca(1)>, L<fips_config(5)>