On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> wrote: > It seems weird to me that openssl spends so much effort tidying up its > memory allocations just before exiting. We could just skip that. > Looking through the code of OPENSSL_cleanup(), there might be one or two > cases of log or trace files that get flushed during cleanup, so it's not > an absolute no-brainer to skip all the cleanup.
I guess I'd be concerned that a hardware crypto provider might need good-faith cleanup to work well. I understand they can't rely on atexit in general, but there would be a big difference between "you might have to clean up after a crash" and "every single connection litters the hardware with unused stuff". But that's pure FUD and guesswork; I have no examples to point to, so there might not be any providers that need that. --Jacob
