From 355b419698bd6f8db03cd79007fc0da1e757e794 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pauli Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:38:26 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Address property documentation concerns. Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9090) --- doc/man7/property.pod | 18 +++++++----------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/man7/property.pod b/doc/man7/property.pod index 1fa6440885..a9b2a776d1 100644 --- a/doc/man7/property.pod +++ b/doc/man7/property.pod @@ -126,20 +126,16 @@ Two levels of property query are supported. A context based property query that applies to all fetch operations and a local property query. Where both the context and local queries include a clause with the same name, -the local clause is used and the context one ignored. -For example, a context property query of "fips=yes" and a local property query -of "fips=no" would result in algorithms that have the "fips" property set t -"no". +the local clause overrides the context clause. -=head2 Override - -It is possible for a local property query to override a clause in the context +It is possible for a local property query to remove a clause in the context property query by preceeding the property name with a '-'. -For example, a conxtet property query that contains "fips=yes" would normally +For example, a context property query that contains "fips=yes" would normally result in implementations that have "fips=yes". -However, if the setting of -the "fips" property is irrelevant to the operations being performed, the local -property query can include the clause "-fips". + +However, if the setting of the "fips" property is irrelevant to the +operations being performed, the local property query can include the +clause "-fips". Note that the local property query could not use "fips=no" because that would disallow any implementations with "fips=yes" rather than not caring about the setting. -- 2.25.1