After a decade of silence, time to face facts that global library cleanup isn't
a high priority, and does have
some concerns/drawbacks (see Pete's note in the RT). We're nog going to address
this unless someone
on the team, or someone with a patch, re-opens the ticket.
--
Rich Salz, OpenSSL dev
Although OpenSSL has an initialization routine (SSL_library_init), it
does not have a corresponding cleanup routine (SSL_library_cleanup). It
does have a few cleanup routines (e.g. EVP_cleanup, OBJ_cleanup, etc.)
but no overall cleanup function.
This has been an issue for us when running OpenSSL
Potentially useful, but ...
A problem we frequently hit is multiple instances of libraries in a single
process - often due to applications dragging in shared library
dependencies they aren't explicitly aware of.
For that reason, this is only mostly safe if you can reference count
somehow,
Hi there,
On December 2, 2003 06:29 pm, Verdon Walker wrote:
Should OpenSSL formalize a mechanism for cleaning up global library
resources? Or is it sufficient to let the OS do that work?
I've got way too much on my plate right now to do anything more than make
a passing comment, but that
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:50:49AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT wrote:
But it never went any further than that, ie. a discussion. Please feel
free to open an RT ticket about this and assign ownership to me if you
like so that it doesn't slip through the cracks...
It was my pleasure...
