From 5af30545c000c195ca6e44f207da004e5780ddb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: schwarze <> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 15:32:20 +0000 Subject: move manual pages from doc/ to man/ for consistency with other libraries, in particular considering that there are unrelated files in doc/; requested by jsing@ and beck@ --- src/lib/libssl/man/SSL_accept.3 | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 103 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/lib/libssl/man/SSL_accept.3 (limited to 'src/lib/libssl/man/SSL_accept.3') diff --git a/src/lib/libssl/man/SSL_accept.3 b/src/lib/libssl/man/SSL_accept.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..944fb50c28 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/lib/libssl/man/SSL_accept.3 @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +.\" +.\" $OpenBSD: SSL_accept.3,v 1.1 2016/11/05 15:32:20 schwarze Exp $ +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2016 $ +.Dt SSL_ACCEPT 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm SSL_accept +.Nd wait for a TLS/SSL client to initiate a TLS/SSL handshake +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In openssl/ssl.h +.Ft int +.Fn SSL_accept "SSL *ssl" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Fn SSL_accept +waits for a TLS/SSL client to initiate the TLS/SSL handshake. +The communication channel must already have been set and assigned to the +.Fa ssl +object by setting an underlying +.Vt BIO . +.Sh NOTES +The behaviour of +.Fn SSL_accept +depends on the underlying +.Vt BIO . +.Pp +If the underlying +.Vt BIO +is +.Em blocking , +.Fn SSL_accept +will only return once the handshake has been finished or an error occurred. +.Pp +If the underlying +.Vt BIO +is +.Em non-blocking , +.Fn SSL_accept +will also return when the underlying +.Vt BIO +could not satisfy the needs of +.Fn SSL_accept +to continue the handshake, indicating the problem by the return value \(mi1. +In this case a call to +.Xr SSL_get_error 3 +with the +return value of +.Fn SSL_accept +will yield +.Dv SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ +or +.Dv SSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE . +The calling process then must repeat the call after taking appropriate action +to satisfy the needs of +.Fn SSL_accept . +The action depends on the underlying +.Dv BIO . +When using a non-blocking socket, nothing is to be done, but +.Xr select 2 +can be used to check for the required condition. +When using a buffering +.Vt BIO , +like a +.Vt BIO +pair, data must be written into or retrieved out of the +.Vt BIO +before being able to continue. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +The following return values can occur: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It 0 +The TLS/SSL handshake was not successful but was shut down controlled and by +the specifications of the TLS/SSL protocol. +Call +.Xr SSL_get_error 3 +with the return value +.Fa ret +to find out the reason. +.It 1 +The TLS/SSL handshake was successfully completed, +and a TLS/SSL connection has been established. +.It <0 +The TLS/SSL handshake was not successful because a fatal error occurred either +at the protocol level or a connection failure occurred. +The shutdown was not clean. +It can also occur of action is need to continue the operation for non-blocking +.Vt BIO Ns +s. +Call +.Xr SSL_get_error 3 +with the return value +.Fa ret +to find out the reason. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr bio 3 , +.Xr ssl 3 , +.Xr SSL_connect 3 , +.Xr SSL_CTX_new 3 , +.Xr SSL_do_handshake 3 , +.Xr SSL_get_error 3 , +.Xr SSL_set_connect_state 3 , +.Xr SSL_shutdown 3 -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb