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authorDr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com>2023-02-02 19:13:47 +0100
committerDr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net>2023-03-25 09:55:04 +0100
commit77aa00697623bab31b312451855c36789204ed60 (patch)
treeb62b4ac82b697f915c85fba77bf4014217f7c4c2 /doc/man1
parenta2a543e0e3ec277d136772b4b0e0bb3d1181d337 (diff)
CMP app: improve doc and help output on -{req,rsp}{in,out} options
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: David von Oheimb <david.von.oheimb@siemens.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/20204)
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-rw-r--r--doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in
index b1ee1cade0..900d87c0c4 100644
--- a/doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in
+++ b/doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in
@@ -882,7 +882,9 @@ Default is one invocation.
=item B<-reqin> I<filenames>
-Take sequence of CMP requests from file(s).
+Take the sequence of CMP requests to send to the server from file(s).
+This option is ignored if the B<-rspin> option is given
+because in the latter case no requests are actually sent.
Multiple filenames may be given, separated by commas and/or whitespace
(where in the latter case the whole argument must be enclosed in "...").
@@ -897,14 +899,15 @@ and the CMP server complains that the transaction ID has already been used.
=item B<-reqout> I<filenames>
-Save sequence of CMP requests to file(s).
+Save the sequence of CMP requests created by the client to file(s).
+These requests are not sent to the server if the B<-reqin> option is used, too.
Multiple filenames may be given, separated by commas and/or whitespace.
As many files are written as needed to store the complete transaction.
=item B<-rspin> I<filenames>
-Process sequence of CMP responses provided in file(s), skipping server.
+Process the sequence of CMP responses provided in file(s), skipping server.
This excludes I<-server>, I<-port>, and I<-use_mock_srv>.
Multiple filenames may be given, separated by commas and/or whitespace.
@@ -912,7 +915,7 @@ As many files are read as needed for the complete transaction.
=item B<-rspout> I<filenames>
-Save sequence of CMP responses to file(s).
+Save the sequence of received CMP responses to file(s).
Multiple filenames may be given, separated by commas and/or whitespace.
As many files are written as needed to store the complete transaction.