On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 07:33:55PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg via RT wrote:
> Hi
>
> As OpenSSL is a library, it should only ever use exit in the case of sever
> problems and not just for "mere" run-time problems.
>
> OPENSSL_config() is documented to be strongly recommended but yet it calls
> exit(1) if it fails to parse the config file. I find it much too fragile and
> makes it really hard to use in a lots of real-world cases.
>
> I would like OPENSSL_config() to not call exit.
I would put it more strongly. It MUST NOT call exit(1). It must
instead return a suitable error if it fails.
--
Viktor.
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