[openssl] OpenSSL_1_1_1-stable update

tomas at openssl.org tomas at openssl.org
Fri Oct 22 09:40:55 UTC 2021


The branch OpenSSL_1_1_1-stable has been updated
       via  851abe78b4ea7b8f238a652cd911420cd0950ff6 (commit)
      from  69211b0fce408537bdfec7dd4cc5814b3c4eda8c (commit)


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commit 851abe78b4ea7b8f238a652cd911420cd0950ff6
Author: PW Hu <jlu.hpw at foxmail.com>
Date:   Sat Oct 9 15:21:00 2021 +0800

    Fix some documentation errors related to return values
    
    Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis at oracle.com>
    Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas at openssl.org>
    (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16794)
    
    (cherry picked from commit f1d077f1108b1bc2334350a4d53a46e29e082910)

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Summary of changes:
 doc/man3/ENGINE_add.pod       | 5 ++---
 doc/man3/ERR_load_strings.pod | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/man3/ENGINE_add.pod b/doc/man3/ENGINE_add.pod
index 369900c248..74589538b2 100644
--- a/doc/man3/ENGINE_add.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/ENGINE_add.pod
@@ -597,8 +597,7 @@ B<ENGINE> implementations.
 
 All ENGINE_register_TYPE() functions return 1 on success or 0 on error.
 
-ENGINE_register_complete() and ENGINE_register_all_complete() return 1 on success
-or 0 on error.
+ENGINE_register_complete() and ENGINE_register_all_complete() always return 1.
 
 ENGINE_ctrl() returns a positive value on success or others on error.
 
@@ -609,7 +608,7 @@ ENGINE_ctrl_cmd() and ENGINE_ctrl_cmd_string() return 1 on success or 0 on error
 ENGINE_new() returns a valid B<ENGINE> structure on success or NULL if an error
 occurred.
 
-ENGINE_free() returns 1 on success or 0 on error.
+ENGINE_free() always returns 1.
 
 ENGINE_up_ref() returns 1 on success or 0 on error.
 
diff --git a/doc/man3/ERR_load_strings.pod b/doc/man3/ERR_load_strings.pod
index 3167f27150..8c708584c0 100644
--- a/doc/man3/ERR_load_strings.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/ERR_load_strings.pod
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ arbitrary error strings
 
  #include <openssl/err.h>
 
- void ERR_load_strings(int lib, ERR_STRING_DATA str[]);
+ int ERR_load_strings(int lib, ERR_STRING_DATA *str);
 
  int ERR_get_next_error_library(void);
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ to user libraries at runtime.
 
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
 
-ERR_load_strings() returns no value. ERR_PACK() return the error code.
+ERR_load_strings() returns 1 for success and 0 for failure. ERR_PACK() returns the error code.
 ERR_get_next_error_library() returns zero on failure, otherwise a new
 library number.
 


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