I've been thinking about the whole static vs. dynamic lock situation,
and I must say I have some difficulty seeing a good way out of it.
The two variants serve similar purposes, but have one crucial
difference, and it's that the static ones are pre-initialised.
If everything was converted to use dynamic locks, I wonder where those
locks would be created and initialised? Shall we have yet another
startup function, say OpenSSL_init(), that does this (BTW, we really
should have that anyway, so we have something that does all those
startup things that people usually need to do, but that's another
story)?
I was playing with the thought of having CRYPTO_lock() create new
locks on the fly if needed, but that won't work because a) there is no
way to know of the given lock index would be an error or a request for
a new lock, and b) to protect the creation against concurency, we'd
need another lock => catch 22!
This needs a lot more thought.
In any case, Bertie, I will apply your patch. I do it reluctantly,
but I've realised that the situation demands it.
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