Commit 793d9b79 authored by Richard Levitte's avatar Richard Levitte Committed by Richard Levitte
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Clarify what X509_NAME_online does with the given buffer and size 



Reviewed-by: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1980)
(cherry picked from commit 19cb71ef)
parent e9a86d6b

doc/crypto/X509_NAME_print_ex.pod

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@@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ can be extensively customised by use of the B<flags> parameter. 
X509_NAME_print_ex_fp() is identical to X509_NAME_print_ex() except the output is

written to FILE pointer B<fp>.



X509_NAME_oneline() prints an ASCII version of B<a> to B<buf>. At most B<size>

bytes will be written. If B<buf> is B<NULL> then a buffer is dynamically allocated

and returned, otherwise B<buf> is returned.

X509_NAME_oneline() prints an ASCII version of B<a> to B<buf>.

If B<buf> is B<NULL> then a buffer is dynamically allocated and returned, and

B<size> is ignored.

Otherwise, at most B<size> bytes will be written, including the ending '\0',

and B<buf> is returned.



X509_NAME_print() prints out B<name> to B<bp> indenting each line by B<obase>

characters. Multiple lines are used if the output (including indent) exceeds