Document that BIO_gets() preserves '\n'.

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <[email protected]> (Merged from openssl#3442)
shawnl · May 15, 2017 · bd4639b · bd4639b
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diff --git a/doc/man3/BIO_read.pod b/doc/man3/BIO_read.pod
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ in B<buf>. Usually this operation will attempt to read a line of data
 from the BIO of maximum length B<size-1>. There are exceptions to this,
 however; for example, BIO_gets() on a digest BIO will calculate and
 return the digest and other BIOs may not support BIO_gets() at all.
-The returned string is always NUL-terminated.
+The returned string is always NUL-terminated and the '\n' is preserved
+if present in the input data.
 
 BIO_write() attempts to write B<len> bytes from B<buf> to BIO B<b>.