On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Arun Venkataraman wrote:

> First of all, BIOs by themselves are not blocking or non-blocking. It is the
> underlying file descriptor that is blocking or non-blocking. Thus, u can
> have a blocking BIO as well as a non-blocking BIO. I haven't used BIOs
> myself, but I believe they are some kind of a wrapper on the SSL struct and
> some other stuff.
> 
> Arun.

Thanks!
This helps a bit. And they are absolutely no network based (something you
could see from the outside) thingies? 

Anybody knows where those BIOs are implemented?
Or anybody knows what they rely on? 'Just' files?? Pipes?? Something
else??
This is really importnat to me, sorry to bother you with this.

Thanks in advance
DD

> >Hi there,
> >
> >could you please tell me, what the BIO's are that are used in the ssltest?
> >I understand they behave like non-blocking sockets, but are they
> >'just' blocking sockets or something else?
> >
> >This is REALLY important to me as I absolutely need something to replace
> >sockets to establish an ssl-connection.
> >
> >Please help!!!
> >DD
> >
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