GENERAL_NAME(3ossl)

📦 version 3.5.0, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💅 GENERAL_NAME (3ossl) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the GENERAL_NAME glow-up page ✨ this is the OpenSSL manpage for GENERAL_NAME, GENERAL_NAME_set1_X509_NAME — aka the GENERAL_NAME method routines 🎀 it's short, it's sweet, and it's literally about making one (1) shiny new name out of an X509_NAME. slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, the whole vibe in code form 🫶

#include <openssl/x509v3.h>

typedef struct GENERAL_NAME_st GENERAL_NAME;

int GENERAL_NAME_set1_X509_NAME(GENERAL_NAME **tgt, const X509_NAME *src);

so yes, GENERAL_NAME is just a typedef for struct GENERAL_NAME_st — the classic "the real struct is shy" situation 🙈 iconic behavior honestly.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea 🍓: GENERAL_NAME_set1_X509_NAME() makes a brand new GENERAL_NAME of type GEN_DIRNAME, and then fills it up based on the X509_NAME you hand it as src 💖

and yes, src is allowed to be NULL — no cap, that's fine, it's literally listed as valid.

tgt, though? tgt must not be NULL. 🚨 that one's non-negotiable, bestie. don't do it.

if everything goes off without a hitch, *tgt gets set to point at the newly created GENERAL_NAME — main character pointer energy 👑✨

🦋 RETURN VALUES 🦋

  • 1 — success, we ate 💅🔥
  • 0 — error, it's giving 😭💀

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. GENERAL_NAME_set1_X509_NAME() returns 1 on success and 0 on error 🎀

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

GENERAL_NAME_set1_X509_NAME() was added in OpenSSL 3.4 — so it's new-ish, freshly dropped, lowkey a little baby 🍼✨ if you're on something older, it's simply not gonna be there, iykyk.

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fr fr read the license before you go wild with it, bestie 🫶 it's right there in LICENSE or at that link, no excuses 💅

and that's the whole page 🌸 mwah 💋 — this was OpenSSL 3.5.0, dated 2026-09-25, signing off from your favorite GENERAL_NAME(3ossl) bestie 🧚💖 periodt.

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