> From: Ralf S. Engelschall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Browsing through the mod_ssl source code, I notice that
> ssl_engine_config.c
> > has a reference to stdin.
>
> Err... you mean ssl_expr_scan.c, I think. I see no reference to stdin
> in ssl_engine_config.
Right, my mistake. Don't know what I was thinking.
> > Unfortunately I don't know lex/flex well enough
> > to understand why. What's up? When does mod_ssl need to
> read stdin?
> >
> > I know that the default SSLPassPhraseDialog setup will
> cause it to prompt
> > for a pass phrase, but that's handled through OpenSSL calls
> > (EVP_read_pw_string(), if I'm not mistaken). This is
> something different.
> > But what? Thanks for any pointers.
>
> mod_ssl doesn't read from stdin. The code is generated by
> Flex and only
> used if the application doesn't provide a yyinput() function. But such
> a function _IS_ provided by mod_ssl, so the scanner never
> uses stdin to
> read the input data.
Thanks, that's what I needed to know. I could see that was flex-generated
code, but I'm not familiar enough with flex to parse it out.
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