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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2020-01-12 01:05:01 +0100
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2020-01-15 01:21:10 +0100
commit56c59ddd99da05c2f30832cccaffb873a8481555 (patch)
tree00a7e2d7dbfd64ab58e09ac2290e86ce58ae4a82 /doc
parent902a97b5869e29175292324ec7c390401c453452 (diff)
Fix documentation of return value for EVP_Digest{Sign,Verify}Init()
They never returned the negative values that the documentation stated. Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10847)
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-rw-r--r--doc/man3/EVP_DigestSignInit.pod4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_DigestSignInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_DigestSignInit.pod
index b2b70bfce6..cd159815de 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_DigestSignInit.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_DigestSignInit.pod
@@ -103,9 +103,7 @@ EVP_DigestSignFinal().
=head1 RETURN VALUES
EVP_DigestSignInit(), EVP_DigestSignUpdate(), EVP_DigestSignaFinal() and
-EVP_DigestSign() return 1 for success and 0 or a negative value for failure. In
-particular, a return value of -2 indicates the operation is not supported by the
-public key algorithm.
+EVP_DigestSign() return 1 for success and 0 for failure.
The error codes can be obtained from L<ERR_get_error(3)>.