[openssl.org #98] OpenSSL engine ctrl: handling of strings

2002-06-20 Thread Geoff Thorpe via RT
Hi, [snip] I'm not sure I understand how this can be a generic problem. If an ENGINE implementation intends to store passed strings, ie. for use after the ENGINE_ctrl() command in question has returned, then it should surely be making a local copy? There are two points that leap to

Re: [openssl.org #98] OpenSSL engine ctrl: handling of strings

2002-06-20 Thread Gtz Babin-Ebell
Geoff Thorpe via RT schrieb: Hi, Hello Geoff, [snip] But in the code I checked the passed string is only referenced, not copied... ahhh ... OK, right I'm with you now. So you see the problem is in the ENGINE implementations, not in the library code that passes the strings through to

[openssl.org #98] OpenSSL engine ctrl: handling of strings

2002-06-18 Thread Geoff Thorpe via RT
Hi there, OK, finally got round to taking a look at this ticket [#98] - apologies for the delay on my part. [[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri Jun 14 21:37:50 2002]: There is a possible problem with the string param handling of ENGINE_ctrl(): (At least I will get a problem...) In the

[openssl.org #98] OpenSSL engine ctrl: handling of strings

2002-06-14 Thread Götz Babin-Ebell via RT
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