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authorAngelos D. Keromytis <angelos@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-10-11 04:45:26 +0000
committerAngelos D. Keromytis <angelos@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-10-11 04:45:26 +0000
commit7737d19037009f073d44520eb85e48c48ae416af (patch)
treeef6b478de99b2a303513e5dae751b3fcfb9005e8
parent479d8855da063489861573bee9467d950d8f2419 (diff)
Fix language to be closer to reality.
-rw-r--r--lib/libkeynote/keynote.412
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libkeynote/keynote.4 b/lib/libkeynote/keynote.4
index 1e0a27b3972..f3b80ea8068 100644
--- a/lib/libkeynote/keynote.4
+++ b/lib/libkeynote/keynote.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: keynote.4,v 1.12 1999/10/11 04:39:01 angelos Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: keynote.4,v 1.13 1999/10/11 04:45:25 angelos Exp $
.\"
.\" The author of this code is Angelos D. Keromytis (angelos@dsl.cis.upenn.edu)
.\"
@@ -251,13 +251,9 @@ will be used by them.
.Pp
Action attribute names and values are represented by arbitrary-length
strings. KeyNote guarantees support of attribute names and values up
-to 2048 characters long. The handling of longer attribute names or
-values is not specified and is KeyNote-implementation-dependent.
-Applications and assertions should therefore avoid depending on the
-the use of attributes with names or values longer than 2048
-characters. The length of an attribute value is represented by an
-implementation-specific mechanism (e.g., NUL-terminated strings, an
-explicit length field, etc.).
+to 2048 characters long. Applications and assertions should therefore
+avoid depending on the the use of attributes with names or values
+longer than 2048 characters.
.Pp
Attribute values are inherently untyped and are represented as
character strings by default. Attribute values may contain any non-