OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_PRINT(3ossl)

💅 OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_PRINT (3ossl)

okay bestie, so this one is a page from the OpenSSL manual, section 3ossl — and it's literally just one little function that prints out an attribute for you. tiny page, big slay. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print — the printing era of OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🎀

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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);

yes, the int return type is giving "i might fail, check me" and honestly? respect. 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print() takes a and prints a human readable version of it into the BIO bp. like it's translating ASN.1 into something your eyeballs can actually handle, no cap 👀

and every single line of that output gets indented by indent spaces — so if you pass 4, everything's nested all pretty, if you pass 0, it's flat and feral. your call, main character. 💅

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💖 RETURN VALUES 💖

OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print() returns 1 on success or 0 on failure.

that's it. 1 = slay, 0 = not slay. please actually check it, bestie 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• ASN1_STRING_print_ex(3) — go read that one too, it's the cousin 👑

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print() was added in OpenSSL 3.4. so yeah, it's a newer icon — if you're on something older she simply does not exist yet 💀

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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>.

like, fr fr read the license, it's not decorative 🍓

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and that's the whole page, gorgeous 🧚 sign-off time: this was OpenSSL 3.5.0, dated 2026-09-25 — go forth and print your attribute syntaxes responsibly, mwah 💜