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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2020-09-04 18:31:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2020-09-10 12:07:33 +0200 |
| commit | a8e2a9f569c60dbbc180672b0fce16ab7dd6ca72 (patch) | |
| tree | 53eb212a0a354b52ec5883c3705e975d95c83361 /doc | |
| parent | X509_NAME_cmp: restrict normal return values to {-1,0,1} to avoid confusion w... (diff) | |
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X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt.pod: Improve documentation w.r.t. multi-valued RDNs (containing sets of AVAs)
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12769)
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt.pod b/doc/man3/X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt.pod index ce8bf3ef29..8b17a016de 100644 --- a/doc/man3/X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt.pod +++ b/doc/man3/X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt.pod @@ -66,13 +66,13 @@ RelativeDistinguishedName (RDN). B<loc> actually determines the index where the new entry is inserted: if it is -1 it is appended. -B<set> determines how the new type is added. If it is zero a -new RDN is created. +B<set> determines how the new type is added. +If it is zero a new RDN is created. -If B<set> is -1 or 1 it is added to the previous or next RDN -structure respectively. This will then be a multivalued RDN: -since multivalues RDNs are very seldom used B<set> is almost -always set to zero. +If B<set> is -1 or 1 it is added as a new set member +to the previous or next RDN structure, respectively. +This will then become part of a multi-valued RDN (containing a set of AVAs). +Since multi-valued RDNs are very rarely used B<set> typically will be zero. =head1 RETURN VALUES |