On Mon, Nov 06, 2006, Brad House wrote: > > I did have a question though. Is there any reason to define the > dynamic thread locking functions? There is a note stating: > "Also, dynamic locks are currently not used internally by OpenSSL, > but may do so in the future." > Is this still accurate? If OpenSSL does start to use them internally, > will the 'old-style' still be sufficient (but maybe just not optimal), > or will there be undefined behavior? >
It is a very good idea to define them. Currently only the Chil ENGINE makes uses of these. If they aren't defined it wont work. In future other functionality may either not be available or at least work in a sub optimal way if they aren't defined. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
