From eae1ea6f39c127171775c4dbca5af33ab566f8aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Werner Koch Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 15:45:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Improved description of status PLAINTEXT_LENGTH. -- GnuPG-bug-id: 4741 --- doc/DETAILS | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/DETAILS b/doc/DETAILS index 315f56e31..6e362523d 100644 --- a/doc/DETAILS +++ b/doc/DETAILS @@ -641,7 +641,10 @@ 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 The list or arguments are: