On Fri, Apr 12, 2013, Balakumaran Kannan wrote: > Thanks Steve for showing interest on this. > > And I think we could start another thread discussing this patch and > improving it. >
One of the biggest concerns is portability. OpenSSL runs on all manner of weird systems and apparently harmless changes can break something. These systems don't get tested very often so the first we hear about it is after an official release. That's one reason why new features aren't added to stable releases any more. IPv6 has had problems in the past. That's one reason why the auto detection of IPv6 support can be overridden by the configure script: some platforms appear to support IPv6 but have broken implementations which choke the compiler. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
