OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_PRINT(3ossl)

🌸 OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_PRINT(3ossl) — the bestie edit 💅

okay so this is the 3ossl manual page for OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print, which lives in the OpenSSL fam 🫶 and honestly? it's a lil one-trick pony but she eats at her one trick, no cap ✨

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🌈 NAME

OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print — the printing function for OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX, aka "make this attribute syntax actually readable to a human" 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS

#include <openssl/x509_acert.h>

int OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print(BIO *bp, OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX *a,
                                int indent);

so you pull in that header 👆 and then you got three args: the BIO you're printing into, the OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX you're printing, and an int indent for the vibe spacing 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION

OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print() prints a human readable version of a to the BIO bp 💅 literally just "here's what this thing looks like, in text, for humans".

and the way it does the aesthetics? every single line of the output is indented by indent spaces 🎀 so yes bestie, that <italic>indent</italic> argument is doing the visual heavy lifting, main character energy fr.

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🔥 RETURN VALUES

OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print() return 1 on success or 0 on failure ✨ that's it, that's the whole contract. 1 = slay, 0 = 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO

• ASN1_STRING_print_ex(3) — go read that one too, iykyk 💜

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⭐ HISTORY

OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print() was added in OpenSSL 3.4 🌱 a relatively recent lil icon, we love a newcomer.

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💖 COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2021-2024 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 https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html 🫶

no cap, read the license, it's giving legally binding and we respect her 💅

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and that's the whole page bestie 🌸 this was 3.5.6, dated 2026-04-07, and it's the 3ossl manual, mwah 💋✨