Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> rsalz> What is the problem you are trying to solve? Who has asked for it?
>
> The problems is operations on one object locking out operations on
> separate objects of the same type (thus making the locking needless in
> that sense). I have asked for it quite some time ago, see
> http://www.opeenssl.org/thoughts/MT-mutexes.txt
I think you meant
http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/thoughts/MT-mutexes.html
> rsalz> I think it is a fool's errand to try to make it possible to
> rsalz> "share" every data structure across threads.
>
> Noone has said "every", but some have asked for "some".
And then there are the contrarians who ask for "none".
It ought to be possible to provide an OpenSSL API which doesn't
do any locking at all, for the benefit of those apps which are
structured so threads don't stomp on each other.
- Dan
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