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diff --git a/openssl/trunk/doc/crypto/BIO_read.pod b/openssl/trunk/doc/crypto/BIO_read.pod deleted file mode 100644 index b3452810..00000000 --- a/openssl/trunk/doc/crypto/BIO_read.pod +++ /dev/null @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@ -=pod - -=head1 NAME - -BIO_read, BIO_write, BIO_gets, BIO_puts - BIO I/O functions - -=head1 SYNOPSIS - - #include <openssl/bio.h> - - int BIO_read(BIO *b, void *buf, int len); - int BIO_gets(BIO *b,char *buf, int size); - int BIO_write(BIO *b, const void *buf, int len); - int BIO_puts(BIO *b,const char *buf); - -=head1 DESCRIPTION - -BIO_read() attempts to read B<len> bytes from BIO B<b> and places -the data in B<buf>. - -BIO_gets() performs the BIOs "gets" operation and places the data -in B<buf>. Usually this operation will attempt to read a line of data -from the BIO of maximum length B<len>. There are exceptions to this -however, for example BIO_gets() on a digest BIO will calculate and -return the digest and other BIOs may not support BIO_gets() at all. - -BIO_write() attempts to write B<len> bytes from B<buf> to BIO B<b>. - -BIO_puts() attempts to write a null terminated string B<buf> to BIO B<b> - -=head1 RETURN VALUES - -All these functions return either the amount of data successfully read or -written (if the return value is positive) or that no data was successfully -read or written if the result is 0 or -1. If the return value is -2 then -the operation is not implemented in the specific BIO type. - -=head1 NOTES - -A 0 or -1 return is not necessarily an indication of an error. In -particular when the source/sink is non-blocking or of a certain type -it may merely be an indication that no data is currently available and that -the application should retry the operation later. - -One technique sometimes used with blocking sockets is to use a system call -(such as select(), poll() or equivalent) to determine when data is available -and then call read() to read the data. The equivalent with BIOs (that is call -select() on the underlying I/O structure and then call BIO_read() to -read the data) should B<not> be used because a single call to BIO_read() -can cause several reads (and writes in the case of SSL BIOs) on the underlying -I/O structure and may block as a result. Instead select() (or equivalent) -should be combined with non blocking I/O so successive reads will request -a retry instead of blocking. - -See L<BIO_should_retry(3)|BIO_should_retry(3)> for details of how to -determine the cause of a retry and other I/O issues. - -If the BIO_gets() function is not supported by a BIO then it possible to -work around this by adding a buffering BIO L<BIO_f_buffer(3)|BIO_f_buffer(3)> -to the chain. - -=head1 SEE ALSO - -L<BIO_should_retry(3)|BIO_should_retry(3)> - -TBA |