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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2018-04-13 08:19:54 +0200
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2018-04-13 10:24:18 +0200
commit0320e8e2869fb6cde4579375e65f6d576bbec95e (patch)
tree9e0b4a57e396e11d462937ea7fde9c13cfa6ebff /doc
parentb4c1950d8914775db503d8ab931735325032a40d (diff)
Docs for OpenSSL_init_crypto: there is no way to specify another file
The documentation erroneously stated that one can change the default configuration file name. Fixes #5939 Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5941)
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-rw-r--r--doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod
index c6a17154a4..b979c25977 100644
--- a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod
@@ -197,10 +197,10 @@ resources should be freed at an earlier time, or under the circumstances
described in the NOTES section below.
The B<OPENSSL_INIT_LOAD_CONFIG> flag will load a default configuration
-file. To specify a different file, an B<OPENSSL_INIT_SETTINGS> must
-be created and used. The routines
-OPENSSL_INIT_new() and OPENSSL_INIT_set_config_appname() can be used to
-allocate the object and set the application name, and then the
+file. For optional configuration file settings, an B<OPENSSL_INIT_SETTINGS>
+must be created and used.
+The routines OPENSSL_init_new() and OPENSSL_INIT_set_config_appname() can
+be used to allocate the object and set the application name, and then the
object can be released with OPENSSL_INIT_free() when done.
=head1 NOTES