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authorMichael Baentsch <info@baentsch.ch>2021-01-13 11:06:13 +0100
committerMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2021-01-14 17:33:47 +0000
commit3bc061eb0a990a95d35c462b9206bdf74905cfa2 (patch)
treee5a8ac7d81994ec627be81768639dae24546d675 /doc/man7/provider.pod
parentb11ba50fd9bd3c33e1627ca5c64f08b403e88173 (diff)
Enhance default provider documentation
Bring Wiki and man page documentation in line regarding default provider fall-back behaviour. Fixes #13844 Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13859)
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@@ -196,7 +196,9 @@ This may be NULL to signify the default (global) library context, or a
context created by the user.
Only providers loaded in this library context (see
L<OSSL_PROVIDER_load(3)>) will be considered by the fetching
-function.
+function. In case no provider has been loaded in this library context
+the default provider will be loaded as fallback (see
+L<OSSL_PROVIDER-default(7)>).
=item An identifier