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| author | Rich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com> | 2019-08-12 16:55:25 -0400 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-10-06 10:55:02 +0200 |
| commit | 7cfc0a555c85220ecfd6ed038a7b859668595b72 (patch) | |
| tree | f4c44f92397f3791bf3576103faf40bb42163cc4 /doc/man5 | |
| parent | 833f7c8c55c3c8a572db2112a5c2eac92c8262b8 (diff) | |
Deprecate NCONF_WIN32() function
Extensive documentation added in HISTORY section in doc/man5/config.pod
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9578)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man5/config.pod | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man5/config.pod b/doc/man5/config.pod index 7245132aa1..817a8d1d0c 100644 --- a/doc/man5/config.pod +++ b/doc/man5/config.pod @@ -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. +=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)> |