Calling OpenSSL_thread_stop() multiple times

Matt Caswell matt at openssl.org
Tue Aug 22 15:54:13 UTC 2023



On 22/08/2023 15:43, Dipak B wrote:
> Is it okay to call openssl_stop_thread() on a thread and then again use 
> that thread for TLS communication ? In effect end up calling 
> open_ssl_thread() multiple times on same thread.

No. Don't do that. Some things get initialised on first use in a thread. 
The initialisation never gets run again, so if they get deinitialised 
they remain deinitialised forever on that thread.

Matt


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