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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-11-23 17:55:32 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-11-23 17:55:32 +0000
commitab222603c636d5a348c3c66fc2d8f3cd8abb7497 (patch)
treee62570dde894a0f3f87051c512fe58ff8b850c5b /lib/libcrypto/man/ERR_error_string.3
parent45c4aa1c6a8bf1558d437933ed523d68d7cb7340 (diff)
Add Copyright and license.
Merge a correction and a clarification from OpenSSL.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libcrypto/man/ERR_error_string.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libcrypto/man/ERR_error_string.359
1 files changed, 56 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/ERR_error_string.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/ERR_error_string.3
index 13b37ea71a7..48f323025e8 100644
--- a/lib/libcrypto/man/ERR_error_string.3
+++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/ERR_error_string.3
@@ -1,6 +1,54 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ERR_error_string.3,v 1.3 2016/11/17 21:06:16 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ERR_error_string.3,v 1.4 2016/11/23 17:55:31 schwarze Exp $
+.\" OpenSSL b97fdb57 Nov 11 09:33:09 2016 +0100
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 17 2016 $
+.\" This file was written by Ulf Moeller <ulf@openssl.org>.
+.\" Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 The OpenSSL Project. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\"
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\"
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
+.\" the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
+.\" distribution.
+.\"
+.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
+.\" software must display the following acknowledgment:
+.\" "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
+.\" for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)"
+.\"
+.\" 4. The names "OpenSSL Toolkit" and "OpenSSL Project" must not be used to
+.\" endorse or promote products derived from this software without
+.\" prior written permission. For written permission, please contact
+.\" openssl-core@openssl.org.
+.\"
+.\" 5. Products derived from this software may not be called "OpenSSL"
+.\" nor may "OpenSSL" appear in their names without prior written
+.\" permission of the OpenSSL Project.
+.\"
+.\" 6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following
+.\" acknowledgment:
+.\" "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
+.\" for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)"
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE OpenSSL PROJECT ``AS IS'' AND ANY
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+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OpenSSL PROJECT OR
+.\" ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
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+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 23 2016 $
.Dt ERR_ERROR_STRING 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -42,12 +90,17 @@ generates a human-readable string representing the error code
and places it in
.Fa buf .
.Fa buf
-must be at least 120 bytes long.
+must be at least 256 bytes long.
If
.Fa buf
is
.Dv NULL ,
the error string is placed in a static buffer.
+Note that this function is not thread-safe and does no checks on
+the size of the buffer; use
+.Fn ERR_error_string_n
+instead.
+.Pp
.Fn ERR_error_string_n
is a variant of
.Fn ERR_error_string