Joel Sing wrote: > On Saturday 25 June 2016 22:58:59 Ted Unangst wrote: > > It's unfortunately unclear from the documentation when it is safe to call > > tls_config_free(). One might naively assume after a call to tls_configure, > > but that's not correct as the config is also accessed during connect. > > Right, we currently keep a reference to the tls_config struct within the > context. We could fix this by (a) improving the documentation (only free > after > all tls contexts have been freed), (b) copying the configuration struct when > tls_configure() is called or (c) reference counting on the tls_config. Out of > these it is probably preferable to do reference counting so that you can > immediately tls_config_free() after tls_configure(). Thoughts?
ref counting makes sense. It may be difficult for programs to correctly maintain lifetimes for two dependent objects.
