Dave Barter wrote: > > I hope I have the right list for this, my apologies if I don't. > > I would like to modify the openssl genrsa program to "quietly" generate > keys, ie. Not print the '.' and '+' characters to STDOUT when generation > occurs. Basically I would like to add the flag -quiet to the genrsa > command line. > > I guess this may be useful in other functions as well, or it may be that > I am the only person annoyed by it ! > > I have had a brief glance at the code to try and ascertaint the best way > to do this, and notice that in genrsa.c for example all output to the > screen goes through a function called BIO_printf(). I was considering > modifying this function to suppress output if the -quiet flag was > present.
openssl-SNAP-20011003 > grep BIO_printf crypto/*/*.c ssl/*.c | wc -l
227
Are you really shure you don't break something with this change ?
> Could somebody on the list give me a brief summary of the BIO_printf
> function and also advise whether there would be a better method to
> achieve my aim.
it is a printf for the BIO interface.
If you don't want these outputs, change the callbacks that print them...
Bye
Goetz
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