On 24-06-2010 19:25, Massimiliano Pala wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question for Win coders.. I am porting LibPKI, which is based on
OpenSSL, to Win OSes. On UNiX OSes we used pthread to initialize support
for threads in OpenSSL.
What is the best practice for Win OS ? Does anybody have some sample
On 24-06-2010 23:31, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Hi Massimiliano,
If the locks need to be shared across processes, use a Mutex (the
mutexes can be named for separate processes, or the mutex can be
unnamed if Object Handle Inheritance is used (a flag to CreateProcess,
which is similar to fork(2))).
Hi Jakob,
Boy this is an argumentative list at times
As a Win32 guy, I understand your the finer points you are making.
Unfortunately, there are implicit assumptions that are being made
which are undermining your arguments. Put another way, its the attacks
which you *don't* know about which
Read my post again,
I did not say that NULL DACLs are not obviously dangerous (they are
and have been deprecated since the mid 1990s). I said that a
NULL SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES does not result in a NULL DACL but something
much less dangerous.
If you found a way to make the SRM assign a NULL DACL
Hi Jakob,
I do agree with you that a NULL SecAttrib will get you a default
descriptor. After sending the post (before you jumped on it), I wanted
to preface the statement with some hand waiving. What constitutes a
default descriptor is somewhat of a moving target when over the
Windows OS's and
Hi all,
I have a question for Win coders.. I am porting LibPKI, which is based on
OpenSSL, to Win OSes. On UNiX OSes we used pthread to initialize support
for threads in OpenSSL.
What is the best practice for Win OS ? Does anybody have some sample code
around ? In particular, I am referring to
Hi Massimiliano,
If the locks need to be shared across processes, use a Mutex (the
mutexes can be named for separate processes, or the mutex can be
unnamed if Object Handle Inheritance is used (a flag to CreateProcess,
which is similar to fork(2))).
Otherwise, use a CRITICAL_SECTION. The
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Massimiliano Pala
massimiliano.p...@dartmouth.edu wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question for Win coders.. I am porting LibPKI, which is based on
OpenSSL, to Win OSes. On UNiX OSes we used pthread to initialize support
for threads in OpenSSL.
What is the best
