RE: OPENSSL_gmtime on platforms that don't have a safe gmtime function

2006-08-12 Thread Stefan . Neis
Hi, why not use mutexes to wrap the gmtime and memcpy, like other places in the library? Because it is either needless or insufficient. (snipp) On platforms where thread-specific data is not used, the mutexes would not prevent other code (not part of OpenSSL) from calling

Re: OPENSSL_gmtime on platforms that don't have a safe gmtime function

2006-08-12 Thread Joe Gluck
All, David cam up with a solution that looks to me as some thing that would be really nice, he suggested that OpenSSL would allow the developer to register a callback function to do the unsafe functions. However while he thinks OpenSSL should default to the OS 'best' function available, I am