Fix state name abbreviation

[thirdparty/openssl.git] / doc / man3 / SSL_state_string.pod

diff --git a/doc/man3/SSL_state_string.pod b/doc/man3/SSL_state_string.pod
index f1bd6eba9db7ac11dcdb23026d7909b279c9d488..e2bf66b95aa922477dc4cde07de71263324e6f85 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/SSL_state_string.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/SSL_state_string.pod
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ SSL_state_string, SSL_state_string_long - get textual description of state of an
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-SSL_state_string() returns a 6 letter string indicating the current state
-of the SSL object B<ssl>.
+SSL_state_string() returns an abbreviated string indicating the current state
+of the SSL object B<ssl>. The returned NUL-terminated string contains 6 or fewer characters.
 
-SSL_state_string_long() returns a string indicating the current state of
+SSL_state_string_long() returns a descriptive string indicating the current state of
 the SSL object B<ssl>.
 
 =head1 NOTES
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ L<ssl(7)>, L<SSL_CTX_set_info_callback(3)>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 
-Copyright 2001-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright 2001-2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
 this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy