On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Mark H. Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 05:39:19PM +0100, Fredrik Strömberg wrote: >> Hello Patrick, >> >> Thank you for your email. I somehow managed to miss the word >> "mandatory" in the manual. I guess there´s nothing else for me to do >> than code a file lock. I need to run multiple openssl instances, and >> openssl doesn´t lock the serial and index files. That´s why I figured >> I´d avoid the problem by not using the serial or index file at all, >> and maybe supply a unique serial from the command line. > > That sounds like a problem with OpenSSL that should be fixed. Perhaps > you could develop and share a patch that provides locking? > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] > Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. >
I solved the problem by making a file lock in my customized wrapper, in Python, with the fcntl module. No C code involved. My skills in C are not enough to code a patch suited for production use, unfortunately. Kind regards, Fredrik Strömberg ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
