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| author | Pauli <pauli@openssl.org> | 2021-09-30 11:39:41 +1000 |
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| committer | Pauli <pauli@openssl.org> | 2021-10-09 23:29:13 +1000 |
| commit | 78de5a94d8e2b0a27ae026de29c195e944a49c6d (patch) | |
| tree | 45bb8d60da8642437c655c7ecad276534770c80f /doc/man7 | |
| parent | 747d142318c5c9ecd80de3f061f54d7af4189039 (diff) | |
doc: document that property names are unique
Both queries and definitions only support each individual name appearing once.
It is an error to have a name appear more than once.
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16716)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/property.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/property.pod b/doc/man7/property.pod index a75f262246..109336ba47 100644 --- a/doc/man7/property.pod +++ b/doc/man7/property.pod @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ property names like A I<property> is a I<name=value> pair. A I<property definition> is a sequence of comma separated properties. -There can be any number of properties in a definition. +There can be any number of properties in a definition, however each name must +be unique. For example: "" defines an empty property definition (i.e., no restriction); "my.foo=bar" defines a property named I<my.foo> which has a string value I<bar> and "iteration.count=3" defines a property named I<iteration.count> which @@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ Matching such clauses is not a requirement, but any additional optional match counts in favor of the algorithm. More details about that in the B<Lookups> section. A I<property query> is a sequence of comma separated property query clauses. +It is an error if a property name appears in more than one query clause. The full syntax for property queries appears below, but the available syntactic features are: |