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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libcrypto/man/BIO_f_base64.3 | 19 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/BIO_f_base64.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/BIO_f_base64.3 index c1bc926b227..a3bf74c4fe7 100644 --- a/lib/libcrypto/man/BIO_f_base64.3 +++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/BIO_f_base64.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: BIO_f_base64.3,v 1.6 2016/12/06 14:45:08 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: BIO_f_base64.3,v 1.7 2017/01/06 03:45:57 schwarze Exp $ .\" OpenSSL fc1d88f0 Wed Jul 2 22:42:40 2014 -0400 .\" .\" This file was written by Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>. @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED .\" OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 6 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 6 2017 $ .Dt BIO_F_BASE64 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -78,15 +78,12 @@ on a base64 BIO that is being written through is used to signal that no more data is to be encoded: this is used to flush the final block through the BIO. .Pp -The flag -.Dv BIO_FLAGS_BASE64_NO_NL -can be set with -.Xr BIO_set_flags 3 -to encode the data all on one line -or expect the data to be all on one line. -.Pp -Because of the format of base64 encoding the end of the encoded -block cannot always be reliably determined. +To encode the data all on one line and to expect the data to be all +on one line, initialize the base64 BIO as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +BIO *b64 = BIO_new(BIO_f_base64()); +BIO_set_flags(b64, BIO_FLAGS_BASE64_NO_NL); +.Ed .Sh RETURN VALUES .Fn BIO_f_base64 returns the base64 BIO method. |