On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:47:27PM +0200, Bodo Moeller wrote:
>> This fix seems reasonable.
> Except for the deadlock. add_do_not_lock must be set *before* RAND_poll
> is called if the lock is held at that time.
Actually, add_do_not_lock is broken too: When one thread has set
add_do_not_lock in ssleay_rand_bytes(), then a second thread
that uses ssleay_rand_add() will continue without blocking.
Obviously this is something that the locks are intended to prevent.
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