On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:40:12PM -0500, Sankaran Narayanan wrote:
> I am adding TLS support to one of our servers, and for some legacy reasons
> i need to share the main SSL pointer across several threads. in the
> dispatcher thread i use SSL_dup and then allow the worker threads to
> free the dup'ed SSL object when it is done...
>
> however, SSL_write's on the dup'ed object fail (null pointer write). a bit
> of investigation using VCd reveals that the problem s3_pkt.c, function
> do_ssl_write
> the s->s3 object's write buffer is null...
>
> am i missing something or is there a better way to share SSL connections
> across threads? any help is appreciated.
I am afraid that SSL_dup() does not fulfill your requirements.
You can only have one datastream through one SSL object at a time,
so that you cannot have two threads concurrently accessing one SSL object.
Best regards,
Lutz
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