Rich Salz wrote:
>
> > To play devil's advocate, why don't we get rid of all locks in OpenSSL?
>
> Because, as we found out (back when my team first contributed the locking code
> to SSLeay), if you only have the granularity of a single "openssl lock", then
> only a single thread can do SSL_write. That locking hierarchy is way too
> coarse. :)
Why do you need the single "openssl lock" in the first place?
What in the OpenSSL API is designed such that a lock is needed
when two different threads are processing two different connections?
- Dan
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