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| author | Scott McPeak <scott.g.mcpeak@gmail.com> | 2021-04-23 03:31:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Pauli <pauli@openssl.org> | 2021-05-08 15:02:34 +1000 |
| commit | 531df8185ff4a083aca550b2c8a56d7993b2c60d (patch) | |
| tree | 4defb52cc8ea0d7a5f09d3310e18e46e0675be82 /doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod | |
| parent | 9b53932b6fb359ad2063a640a3db3d2c5f44cfaa (diff) | |
BIO_printf.pod: Clarify that output is always null terminated.
The original text was ambiguous about termination for errors other
than insufficient space. See issue #14772.
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/15000)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod b/doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod index d7a59a36fd..221881d123 100644 --- a/doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod +++ b/doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod @@ -40,9 +40,10 @@ buffer is too small. =head1 NOTES -Except when I<n> is 0, both BIO_snprintf() and BIO_vsnprintf() terminate -their output with C<'\0'> even when there is insufficient space to output -the whole string. +Except when I<n> is 0, both BIO_snprintf() and BIO_vsnprintf() always +terminate their output with C<'\0'>. This includes cases where -1 is +returned, such as when there is insufficient space to output the whole +string. =head1 COPYRIGHT |