Re: The cost of pthread-mutexes or corresponding...

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

dank> > that sense).  I have asked for it quite some time ago, see
dank> > http://www.opeenssl.org/thoughts/MT-mutexes.txt
dank> 
dank> I think you meant
dank> http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/thoughts/MT-mutexes.html

Nope, I meant http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/thoughts/MT-mutexes.txt,
which is the mail I sent back then :-).

dank> And then there are the contrarians who ask for "none".
dank> It ought to be possible to provide an OpenSSL API which doesn't
dank> do any locking at all, for the benefit of those apps which are
dank> structured so threads don't stomp on each other.

You do have that possibility, by not providing locking callbacks.
However, that's a pretty dangerous thing to do if you want the error
stack to be consistent...

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