On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:51:05PM -0700, Patrick Pelletier wrote: > >Oh. Is there any reason not to blow that away, or at least build-time > >select which to use? > > I'm in agreement with you; I just don't think you're going to get > the OpenSSL folks on board. They'll probably say something like "we > want to be totally agnostic to threading library" without > acknowledging that pthreads and Windows threads cover the vast > majority of modern mainstream operating systems.
Ah... I need OpenSSL developers to consider this. Would that mean re-posting to the openssl-dev list? > >Great. I was hoping that the response wouldn't be something like "no > >way, we need these callback setting functions for XYZ reasons" or, > >worse, "no way". > > Unfortunately, I think the response will be that. (The OpenSSL > folks just haven't weighed in on this thread yet.) That's why I was I'm ever an optimist and I fail to see any reason to not make initialization automatic and safe on all major platforms, keeping the old callback setters as no-ops and as fallbacks in cases where build-time configuration specifically requires that those setters not be no-ops. The alternative has to be "don't *EVER* use OpenSSL from a library", or "always link with and initialize OpenSSL in every program that might -no matter how indirectly- use an OpenSSL-using library", and *clearly* that can't be what the OpenSSL devs want, or if it is, then it's clearly way too late. > floating the idea of writing an unofficial companion library that > would smooth over these rough spots and provide a "batteries > included" approach to people who want it, without having to convince > the OpenSSL project to change the core library, which I think would > be an uphill battle at best. That can't really work unless *every* OpenSSL-using library used it, or unless we specifically go for using symbol interposition (which means dynamic linking, FYI, so it'd not work for statically-linked builds). I'd like to get authoritative answers to my questions before considering alternatives. Nico -- ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
