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authorWerner Koch <[email protected]>2019-11-07 14:45:36 +0000
committerWerner Koch <[email protected]>2019-11-07 14:46:00 +0000
commit1d83f92fa92889063c5455f7346516b5591e2f0c (patch)
treecba625d9f33985f7ab9f64350b67b6d3680d2286
parentgpg: Fix a potential loss of key sigs during import with self-sigs-only. (diff)
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doc: Improved description of status PLAINTEXT_LENGTH.
-- GnuPG-bug-id: 4741
-rw-r--r--doc/DETAILS5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/DETAILS b/doc/DETAILS
index 427adcdad..73c485b34 100644
--- a/doc/DETAILS
+++ b/doc/DETAILS
@@ -634,7 +634,10 @@ pkd:0:1024:B665B1435F4C2 .... FF26ABB:
This indicates the length of the plaintext that is about to be
written. Note that if the plaintext packet has partial length
encoding it is not possible to know the length ahead of time. In
- that case, this status tag does not appear.
+ that case, this status tag does not appear. The length is only
+ exact for binary formats; other formats ('t', 'u') may do post
+ processing like line ending conversion so that the actual number
+ of bytes written may be differ.
*** ATTRIBUTE <arguments>
The list or arguments are: