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authorDr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com>2020-05-23 14:23:14 +0200
committerDr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com>2020-05-25 20:59:42 +0200
commit1bde3c65baea32a3d87fe80f04f2f6594e74992d (patch)
treeeae12388f689e85d80785c7f81725b582a48e1d7 /doc
parent767b86ee52227b1c8e5c783b9c3850fa65338058 (diff)
Fix B<..> vs. I<..> and add two remarks in OSSL_STORE_open.pod
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11912)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/man3/OSSL_STORE_open.pod32
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_STORE_open.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_STORE_open.pod
index 309390efc3..432ba9da92 100644
--- a/doc/man3/OSSL_STORE_open.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_STORE_open.pod
@@ -46,21 +46,22 @@ OSSL_STORE_close() to work together.
=head2 Functions
-OSSL_STORE_open() takes a uri or path B<uri>, password UI method
-B<ui_method> with associated data B<ui_data>, and post processing
-callback B<post_process> with associated data B<post_process_data>,
+OSSL_STORE_open() takes a uri or path I<uri>, password UI method
+I<ui_method> with associated data I<ui_data>, and post processing
+callback I<post_process> with associated data I<post_process_data>,
opens a channel to the data located at that URI and returns a
B<OSSL_STORE_CTX> with all necessary internal information.
-The given B<ui_method> and B<ui_data_data> will be reused by all
-functions that use B<OSSL_STORE_CTX> when interaction is needed.
-The given B<post_process> and B<post_process_data> will be reused by
+The given I<ui_method> and I<ui_data> will be reused by all
+functions that use B<OSSL_STORE_CTX> when interaction is needed,
+for instance to provide a password.
+The given I<post_process> and I<post_process_data> will be reused by
OSSL_STORE_load() to manipulate or drop the value to be returned.
-The B<post_process> function drops values by returning B<NULL>, which
+The I<post_process> function drops values by returning NULL, which
will cause OSSL_STORE_load() to start its process over with loading
-the next object, until B<post_process> returns something other than
-B<NULL>, or the end of data is reached as indicated by OSSL_STORE_eof().
+the next object, until I<post_process> returns something other than
+NULL, or the end of data is reached as indicated by OSSL_STORE_eof().
-OSSL_STORE_ctrl() takes a B<OSSL_STORE_CTX>, and command number B<cmd> and
+OSSL_STORE_ctrl() takes a B<OSSL_STORE_CTX>, and command number I<cmd> and
more arguments not specified here.
The available loader specific command numbers and arguments they each
take depends on the loader that's used and is documented together with
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ OSSL_STORE_eof() shows that the end of data has been reached.
OSSL_STORE_close() takes a B<OSSL_STORE_CTX>, closes the channel that was opened
by OSSL_STORE_open() and frees all other information that was stored in the
B<OSSL_STORE_CTX>, as well as the B<OSSL_STORE_CTX> itself.
-If B<ctx> is NULL it does nothing.
+If I<ctx> is NULL it does nothing.
=head1 SUPPORTED SCHEMES
@@ -124,12 +125,12 @@ See L<passphrase-encoding(7)> for further information.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
OSSL_STORE_open() returns a pointer to a B<OSSL_STORE_CTX> on success, or
-B<NULL> on failure.
+NULL on failure.
OSSL_STORE_load() returns a pointer to a B<OSSL_STORE_INFO> on success, or
-B<NULL> on error or when end of data is reached.
+NULL on error or when end of data is reached.
Use OSSL_STORE_error() and OSSL_STORE_eof() to determine the meaning of a
-returned B<NULL>.
+returned NULL.
OSSL_STORE_eof() returns 1 if the end of data has been reached, otherwise
0.
@@ -150,6 +151,9 @@ OSSL_STORE_CTX(), OSSL_STORE_post_process_info_fn(), OSSL_STORE_open(),
OSSL_STORE_ctrl(), OSSL_STORE_load(), OSSL_STORE_eof() and OSSL_STORE_close()
were added in OpenSSL 1.1.1.
+Handling of NULL I<ctx> argument for OSSL_STORE_close()
+was introduced in OpenSSL 1.1.1h.
+
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2016-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.