NAME
BUF_MEM_new,
BUF_MEM_free, BUF_MEM_grow,
BUF_MEM_grow_clean —
simple character arrays
structure
SYNOPSIS
#include
<openssl/buffer.h>
BUF_MEM *
BUF_MEM_new(void);
void
BUF_MEM_free(BUF_MEM *a);
int
BUF_MEM_grow(BUF_MEM *str,
size_t len);
int
BUF_MEM_grow_clean(BUF_MEM *str,
size_t len);
DESCRIPTION
The buffer library handles simple character arrays. Buffers are used for various purposes in the library, most notably memory BIOs.
The library uses the BUF_MEM structure defined in buffer.h:
typedef struct buf_mem_st {
size_t length; /* current number of bytes */
char *data;
size_t max; /* size of buffer */
} BUF_MEM;
length is the current size of the buffer in bytes; max is the amount of memory allocated to the buffer. There are three functions which handle these and one miscellaneous function.
BUF_MEM_new()
allocates a new buffer of zero size.
BUF_MEM_free()
frees up an already existing buffer. The data is zeroed before freeing up in
case the buffer contains sensitive data. If a is a
NULL pointer, no action occurs.
BUF_MEM_grow()
changes the size of an already existing buffer to len.
Any data already in the buffer is preserved if it increases in size.
BUF_MEM_grow_clean()
is similar to BUF_MEM_grow(), but it sets any freed
or additionally allocated memory to zero.
RETURN VALUES
BUF_MEM_new() returns the buffer or
NULL on error.
BUF_MEM_grow() and
BUF_MEM_grow_clean() return zero on error or the new
size (i.e. len).
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
BUF_MEM_new(),
BUF_MEM_free(), and
BUF_MEM_grow() first appeared in SSLeay 0.6.0. All
these functions have been available since OpenBSD
2.4.
BUF_MEM_grow_clean() first appeared in
OpenSSL 0.9.7 and has been available since OpenBSD
3.2.