--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Phillip Hellewell <[email protected]> wrote:
Do you think it's ok to set my type to just BIO_TYPE_SOURCE_SINK, or do I need
to set it to
(BIO_TYPE_SOURCE_SINK | some_magic_number_that_hopefully_noone_else_is_using)?
Phillip
Really it depends what's being called whether you are going to keep it generic
or there's some advantage to imitate a BIO_TYPE_FILE or something. Based on
what you've described you could imitate a specific type, but the disadvantage
to that is that if/when OpenSSL dev team changes that specific type you could
have a problem, like say ptr wasn't in use but then they changed the type so it
is. Also I really don't see any advantage to making your own magic number,
because dev team could just end up using that number at some point and again
problem.
