Remove ASN1_STRING_TABLE_{add,cleanup}() documentation

The unused ASN1_STRING_TABLE extensibility API will be removed in the next
major bump and the table itself will become immutable. Lightly adjust the
remaining text. In particular, update the RFC reference, stop talking about
defaults when nothing can be changed anymore, do not mention useless flags
that you will no longer be able to set and move the description of the only
remaining flag after the description of ASN1_STRING_TABLE_get().

The file will be renamed in a second step.

diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add.3
index 482faa0..af5e810 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/libcrypto/man/ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add.3
+++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add.3,v 1.9 2021/12/15 20:07:51 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add.3,v 1.10 2023/12/16 10:22:56 tb Exp $
 .\" checked up to:
 .\" OpenSSL ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add.pod 7b608d08 Jul 27 01:18:50 2017 +0800
 .\"
@@ -16,38 +16,26 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 15 2021 $
-.Dt ASN1_STRING_TABLE_ADD 3
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 16 2023 $
+.Dt ASN1_STRING_TABLE_GET 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
-.Nm ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add ,
-.Nm ASN1_STRING_TABLE_get ,
-.Nm ASN1_STRING_TABLE_cleanup
-.Nd maintain the global ASN.1 string table
+.Nm ASN1_STRING_TABLE_get
+.Nd retrieve an entry from the global ASN.1 string table
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .In openssl/asn1.h
-.Ft int
-.Fo ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add
-.Fa "int nid"
-.Fa "long minsize"
-.Fa "long maxsize"
-.Fa "unsigned long mask"
-.Fa "unsigned long flags"
-.Fc
 .Ft ASN1_STRING_TABLE *
 .Fo ASN1_STRING_TABLE_get
 .Fa "int nid"
 .Fc
-.Ft void
-.Fn ASN1_STRING_TABLE_cleanup void
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The ASN.1 string table is a unique global object.
 Each entry is of the type
 .Vt ASN1_STRING_TABLE
 and contains information about one NID object.
-Some entries are predefined according to RFC 3280 appendix A.1.
+The entries are predefined according to RFC 5280 appendix A.1.
 .Pp
-By default, the upper bounds for the number of characters in various kinds of
+The upper bounds for the number of characters in various kinds of
 .Vt ASN1_STRING
 objects are:
 .Pp
@@ -68,58 +56,16 @@ objects are:
 .El
 .Pp
 The function
-.Fn ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add
-changes the existing entry for
-.Fa nid
-or, if there is none, allocates a new entry.
-The fields of the entry are overwritten with the function arguments
-of the same name.
-If
-.Fa minsize
-or
-.Fa maxsize
-is negative or
-.Fa mask
-is 0, that argument is ignored and the respective field remains unchanged,
-or for a new entry, it is set to \-1, \-1, 0, or
-.Dv STABLE_FLAGS_MALLOC ,
-respectively.
-.Pp
-The bits set in the
-.Fa flags
-argument are OR'ed into the existing field rather than overwriting it.
-The only useful flag is
-.Dv STABLE_NO_MASK .
-If it is set,
-.Xr ASN1_STRING_set_by_NID 3
-skips applying the global mask that can be set with
-.Xr ASN1_STRING_set_default_mask 3 .
-Otherwise, the table entry only accepts types
-permitted by both the global mask and the
-.Fa mask
-argument.
-Setting
-.Dv STABLE_FLAGS_MALLOC
-or any other bit in the
-.Fa mask
-argument has no effect.
-.Pp
-The function
 .Fn ASN1_STRING_TABLE_get
 retrieves the entry for
 .Fa nid .
-.Pp
-The function
-.Fn ASN1_STRING_TABLE_cleanup
-removes and frees all entries except the predefined ones
-and restores the predefined ones to their default state.
+If the
+.Dv STABLE_NO_MASK
+flag is set,
+.Xr ASN1_STRING_set_by_NID 3
+skips applying the global mask that can be set with
+.Xr ASN1_STRING_set_default_mask 3 .
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
-The
-.Fn ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add
-function returns 1 if successful; otherwise 0 is returned
-and an error code can be retrieved with
-.Xr ERR_get_error 3 .
-.Pp
 .Fn ASN1_STRING_TABLE_get
 returns a valid
 .Vt ASN1_STRING_TABLE
@@ -132,10 +78,7 @@ if nothing is found.
 .Xr OBJ_create 3 ,
 .Xr OBJ_nid2obj 3
 .Sh HISTORY
-.Fn ASN1_STRING_TABLE_add ,
-.Fn ASN1_STRING_TABLE_get ,
-and
-.Fn ASN1_STRING_TABLE_cleanup
+.Fn ASN1_STRING_TABLE_get
 first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.5 and have been available since
 .Ox 2.7 .
 .Sh BUGS