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commit 531df8185ff4a083aca550b2c8a56d7993b2c60d
Author: Scott McPeak <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Apr 23 03:31:54 2021 -0700
BIO_printf.pod: Clarify that output is always null terminated.
The original text was ambiguous about termination for errors other
than insufficient space. See issue #14772.
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <[email protected]>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/15000)
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Summary of changes:
doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod b/doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod
index d7a59a36fd..221881d123 100644
--- a/doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/BIO_printf.pod
@@ -40,9 +40,10 @@ buffer is too small.
=head1 NOTES
-Except when I<n> is 0, both BIO_snprintf() and BIO_vsnprintf() terminate
-their output with C<'\0'> even when there is insufficient space to output
-the whole string.
+Except when I<n> is 0, both BIO_snprintf() and BIO_vsnprintf() always
+terminate their output with C<'\0'>. This includes cases where -1 is
+returned, such as when there is insufficient space to output the whole
+string.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
