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authorPW Hu <jlu.hpw@foxmail.com>2021-10-09 15:21:00 +0800
committerTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>2021-10-22 11:40:29 +0200
commitef3889e7a2e21e9acea3bc0927c22f962da36eed (patch)
tree8ff52f29db992db341ac4b6457e6ba60bd2b1486 /doc
parentd9f8032ea6c414fbcf91ed541059dd6c32a9abc6 (diff)
Fix some documentation errors related to return values
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16794) (cherry picked from commit f1d077f1108b1bc2334350a4d53a46e29e082910)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/man3/ENGINE_add.pod5
-rw-r--r--doc/man3/ERR_load_strings.pod4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/ENGINE_add.pod b/doc/man3/ENGINE_add.pod
index c9279e871f..982a4001b7 100644
--- a/doc/man3/ENGINE_add.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/ENGINE_add.pod
@@ -604,8 +604,7 @@ B<ENGINE> implementations.
All ENGINE_register_TYPE() functions return 1 on success or 0 on error.
-ENGINE_register_complete() and ENGINE_register_all_complete() return 1 on success
-or 0 on error.
+ENGINE_register_complete() and ENGINE_register_all_complete() always return 1.
ENGINE_ctrl() returns a positive value on success or others on error.
@@ -616,7 +615,7 @@ ENGINE_ctrl_cmd() and ENGINE_ctrl_cmd_string() return 1 on success or 0 on error
ENGINE_new() returns a valid B<ENGINE> structure on success or NULL if an error
occurred.
-ENGINE_free() returns 1 on success or 0 on error.
+ENGINE_free() always returns 1.
ENGINE_up_ref() returns 1 on success or 0 on error.
diff --git a/doc/man3/ERR_load_strings.pod b/doc/man3/ERR_load_strings.pod
index 56d31e6611..55f4cb244e 100644
--- a/doc/man3/ERR_load_strings.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/ERR_load_strings.pod
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ arbitrary error strings
#include <openssl/err.h>
- void ERR_load_strings(int lib, ERR_STRING_DATA str[]);
+ int ERR_load_strings(int lib, ERR_STRING_DATA *str);
int ERR_get_next_error_library(void);
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ to user libraries at run time.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
-ERR_load_strings() returns no value. ERR_PACK() return the error code.
+ERR_load_strings() returns 1 for success and 0 for failure. ERR_PACK() returns the error code.
ERR_get_next_error_library() returns zero on failure, otherwise a new
library number.