openssl/doc/man3/SSL_get_all_async_fds.pod
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While stereotyped repetitions are frowned upon in literature, they
serve a useful purpose in manual pages, because it is easier for
the user to find certain information if it is always presented in
the same way. For that reason, this commit harmonizes the varying
formulations in the HISTORY section about which functions, flags,
etc. were added in which OpenSSL version.

It also attempts to make the pod files more grep friendly by
avoiding to insert line breaks between the symbol names and the
corresponding version number in which they were introduced
(wherever possible). Some punctuation and typographical errors
were fixed on the way.

Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7854)
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=pod
=head1 NAME
SSL_waiting_for_async,
SSL_get_all_async_fds,
SSL_get_changed_async_fds
- manage asynchronous operations
=head1 SYNOPSIS
=for comment multiple includes
#include <openssl/async.h>
#include <openssl/ssl.h>
int SSL_waiting_for_async(SSL *s);
int SSL_get_all_async_fds(SSL *s, OSSL_ASYNC_FD *fd, size_t *numfds);
int SSL_get_changed_async_fds(SSL *s, OSSL_ASYNC_FD *addfd, size_t *numaddfds,
OSSL_ASYNC_FD *delfd, size_t *numdelfds);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
SSL_waiting_for_async() determines whether an SSL connection is currently
waiting for asynchronous operations to complete (see the SSL_MODE_ASYNC mode in
L<SSL_CTX_set_mode(3)>).
SSL_get_all_async_fds() returns a list of file descriptor which can be used in a
call to select() or poll() to determine whether the current asynchronous
operation has completed or not. A completed operation will result in data
appearing as "read ready" on the file descriptor (no actual data should be read
from the file descriptor). This function should only be called if the SSL object
is currently waiting for asynchronous work to complete (i.e.
SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC has been received - see L<SSL_get_error(3)>). Typically the
list will only contain one file descriptor. However if multiple asynchronous
capable engines are in use then more than one is possible. The number of file
descriptors returned is stored in B<*numfds> and the file descriptors themselves
are in B<*fds>. The B<fds> parameter may be NULL in which case no file
descriptors are returned but B<*numfds> is still populated. It is the callers
responsibility to ensure sufficient memory is allocated at B<*fds> so typically
this function is called twice (once with a NULL B<fds> parameter and once
without).
SSL_get_changed_async_fds() returns a list of the asynchronous file descriptors
that have been added and a list that have been deleted since the last
SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC was received (or since the SSL object was created if no
SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC has been received). Similar to SSL_get_all_async_fds() it
is the callers responsibility to ensure that B<*addfd> and B<*delfd> have
sufficient memory allocated, although they may be NULL. The number of added fds
and the number of deleted fds are stored in B<*numaddfds> and B<*numdelfds>
respectively.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
SSL_waiting_for_async() will return 1 if the current SSL operation is waiting
for an async operation to complete and 0 otherwise.
SSL_get_all_async_fds() and SSL_get_changed_async_fds() return 1 on success or
0 on error.
=head1 NOTES
On Windows platforms the openssl/async.h header is dependent on some
of the types customarily made available by including windows.h. The
application developer is likely to require control over when the latter
is included, commonly as one of the first included headers. Therefore
it is defined as an application developer's responsibility to include
windows.h prior to async.h.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<SSL_get_error(3)>, L<SSL_CTX_set_mode(3)>
=head1 HISTORY
The SSL_waiting_for_async(), SSL_get_all_async_fds()
and SSL_get_changed_async_fds() functions were added in OpenSSL 1.1.0.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2016 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
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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