This is not a design flaw in the BIO. It is a requirement on Windows that the DLLs be built with the same run-time library and threading models as the application.
> Hard to believe it might by true. Nevertheless > everything indicates there is a major design flaw > in BIO: > > BIO sends FILE* pointer across dll boundary, causing > crash of statically linked version of libeay32.dll. > (At least on WINNT). To reproduce, modify the corresponding > compiler switch to /MT and try enclosed tests. The crash > is located inside the EnterCriticalSection API, since the dll > incorrectly considers sent FILE* as FILEX structure after > being unable to locate it in its own list of FILEs. > > This is caused by the fact, both exe and dll maintain its > own copy of the run time library, hence FILE* from > the exe cannot work inside the DLL. > > > Jan Kuznik > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jeffrey Altman * Volunteer Developer Kermit 95 2.1 GUI available now!!! The Kermit Project @ Columbia University SSH, Secure Telnet, Secure FTP, HTTP http://www.kermit-project.org/ Secured with MIT Kerberos, SRP, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSSL. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
