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| author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-08-31 09:30:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-09-12 13:30:09 +0200 |
| commit | 45211c563fb12aca50771b3400b833da4095c6de (patch) | |
| tree | 7fed8d713f8c167cb4ad09029c51508077b0d0a3 | |
| parent | fd60a12d3a08381a543e8f15f1733f7f67de74b8 (diff) | |
doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod: add details about multiple elements with same key
Usually, each element in an OSSL_PARAM array will have a unique key.
However, there may be some rare cases when a responder will handle
multiple elements with the same key. This adds a short passage
explaining this case.
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9741)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod index d0725e063e..361028fa00 100644 --- a/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod +++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ I<responder>. =back +Normally, the order of the an B<OSSL_PARAM> array is not relevant. +However, if the I<responder> can handle multiple elements with the +same key, those elements must be handled in the order they are in. + =head2 B<OSSL_PARAM> fields =over 4 |