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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3/OBJ_nid2obj.pod')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OBJ_nid2obj.pod b/doc/man3/OBJ_nid2obj.pod index 94eb6cc5899f..62f506149964 100644 --- a/doc/man3/OBJ_nid2obj.pod +++ b/doc/man3/OBJ_nid2obj.pod @@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ OBJ_dup() returns a copy of I<o>. OBJ_create() adds a new object to the internal table. I<oid> is the numerical form of the object, I<sn> the short name and I<ln> the long name. A new NID is returned for the created object in case of -success and NID_undef in case of failure. +success and NID_undef in case of failure. Any of I<oid>, I<sn> and +I<ln> may be NULL, but not all at once. OBJ_length() returns the size of the content octets of I<obj>. @@ -142,6 +143,8 @@ These functions cannot return B<const> because an B<ASN1_OBJECT> can represent both an internal, constant, OID and a dynamically-created one. The latter cannot be constant because it needs to be freed after use. +These functions were not thread safe in OpenSSL 3.0 and before. + =head1 RETURN VALUES OBJ_nid2obj() returns an B<ASN1_OBJECT> structure or B<NULL> is an @@ -180,12 +183,6 @@ Create a new object directly: obj = OBJ_txt2obj("1.2.3.4", 1); -=head1 BUGS - -Neither OBJ_create() nor OBJ_add_sigid() do any locking and are thus not -thread safe. Moreover, none of the other functions should be called while -concurrent calls to these two functions are possible. - =head1 SEE ALSO L<ERR_get_error(3)> |