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authorPaul Yang <yang.yang@baishancloud.com>2017-11-21 23:43:03 +0800
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2017-12-08 12:48:18 +0100
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[to be squashed] Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4767)
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=item B<-days n>
When the B<-x509> option is being used this specifies the number of
-days to certify the certificate for, otherwise it is ignored.
-The default is 30 days.
+days to certify the certificate for, otherwise it is ignored. B<n> should
+be a positive integer. The default is 30 days.
=item B<-set_serial n>