Fix spelling errors in documentation.

Also fix some clumsy wording.

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Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6545)

diff --git a/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb.pod b/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb.pod
index c66164ebdcb85faa266602ea8601b47aaf5e3297..774c4b120f6e302e45f9012d512e61411ea96de7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb.pod
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ L<SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(3)>).
 (SSL/TLS server only.)
 
 SSL_CTX_sess_get_new_cb(), SSL_CTX_sess_get_remove_cb(), and
-SSL_CTX_sess_get_get_cb() allow to retrieve the function pointers of the
-provided callback functions. If a callback function has not been set,
-the NULL pointer is returned.
+SSL_CTX_sess_get_get_cb() retrieve the function pointers set by the
+corresponding set callback functions. If a callback function has not been
+set, the NULL pointer is returned.
 
 =head1 NOTES
 

diff --git a/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_cert_verify_callback.pod b/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_cert_verify_callback.pod
index 6a9c2389fa174db7abae98163cd0bf6a8ae4eeac..0c3378db660ec1ccec98a1737092dec6fae61f93 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_cert_verify_callback.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_cert_verify_callback.pod
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ argument I<arg> is specified by the application when setting I<callback>.
 I<callback> should return 1 to indicate verification success and 0 to
 indicate verification failure. If SSL_VERIFY_PEER is set and I<callback>
 returns 0, the handshake will fail. As the verification procedure may
-allow to continue the connection in case of failure (by always returning 1)
-the verification result must be set in any case using the B<error>
-member of I<x509_store_ctx> so that the calling application will be informed
-about the detailed result of the verification procedure!
+allow the connection to continue in the case of failure (by always
+returning 1) the verification result must be set in any case using the
+B<error> member of I<x509_store_ctx> so that the calling application
+will be informed about the detailed result of the verification procedure!
 
 Within I<x509_store_ctx>, I<callback> has access to the I<verify_callback>
 function set using L<SSL_CTX_set_verify(3)>.

diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod b/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod
index 61b52efeea84f05c4d1e4cd11890611482731c6e..9b64e0a915a2e35b71a36617a9ec419b7927f1ff 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ B<X509_CHECK_FLAG_NEVER_CHECK_SUBJECT> host flag, or because some DNS subject
 alternative names are present in the certificate, DNS name constraints in
 issuer certificates will not be applied to the subject DN.
 As described in X509_check_host(3) the B<X509_CHECK_FLAG_NEVER_CHECK_SUBJECT>
-flag takes precendence over the B<X509_CHECK_FLAG_ALWAYS_CHECK_SUBJECT> flag.
+flag takes precedence over the B<X509_CHECK_FLAG_ALWAYS_CHECK_SUBJECT> flag.
 
 X509_VERIFY_PARAM_get_hostflags() returns any host flags previously set via a
 call to X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_hostflags().

diff --git a/doc/man7/RAND_DRBG.pod b/doc/man7/RAND_DRBG.pod
index 9f7f12470c99fbc2f376ea47e2321b1a55e744e0..b89c30d43edd04cab632a8e591e5dd98952cc232 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man7/RAND_DRBG.pod
+++ b/doc/man7/RAND_DRBG.pod
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ This is in fact done automatically by L<RAND_DRBG_bytes(3)>.
 
 In most cases OpenSSL will automatically choose a suitable seed source
 for automatically seeding and reseeding its <master> DRBG. In some cases
-however, it will be necessary to explicitely specify a seed source during
+however, it will be necessary to explicitly specify a seed source during
 configuration, using the --with-rand-seed option. For more information,
 see the INSTALL instructions. There are also operating systems where no
 seed source is available and automatic reseeding is disabled by default.