On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 07:34:33AM -0800, Geoff Thorpe wrote:
[...]
> whose internals are generally only managed inside OpenSSL anyway. Eg. the
> caller may pass a const X509* pointer, but the caller is generally not
> supposed to be using the structure's internals directly anyway - the use
> of "const" is 80% for the application programmer's own benefit, whether we
> violate it or not.
A problem is that if the API says the argument is 'const', then it
looks as if it's safe to use the same object in multiple threads
concurrently. For X509_cmp it is actually safe because
CRYPTO_LOCK_X509 is used if necessary, but we cannot do something like
this for BN_mul.
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