On 8/15/2013 10:24 AM, Nico Williams wrote:
Hi, I'm sorry if this has all been discussed extensively before. A
brief search for "DLL hell" in the archives turns up disappointingly
(and surprisingly) little. I do see a thread with messages from my
erstwhile colleagues at Sun/Oracle, so I know it's been discussed,
e.g., here: http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@openssl.org/msg27453.html
. Recent developments, like Android's failure to properly initialize
OpenSSL's PRNG make me think it's time to table (in the British sense)
the issue once more.
To summarize the rest of this long post (please forgive me):
I think a lot of the init logic heralds from the original SSLeay days.
There seems to be intent that initialization is supposed to happen in
main() in the application and libraries shouldn't be calling
initialization routines in OpenSSL.
However, I agree that all the init logic for the library should be
handled automatically and transparently in a thread-safe manner.
--
Thomas Hruska
Shining Light Productions
Home of BMP2AVI and Win32 OpenSSL.
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