[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #3964] Fix OPENSSL_NO_STDIO build

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Sep 30 08:52:05 UTC 2015


See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html


> To question about OPENSSL_stderr() that was removed with "not used"
> rationale. When it comes to a *library* you always run risk of finding
> something that it not used by the library itself, something that is
> meant to be used exclusively by somebody else's application. And
> OPENSSL_stderr() is such thing. Well, for a Unix person it's really
> meaningless function, but it was introduced to solve small but
> irritating problem in FIPS module context on Windows.


You'll note I left it well alone on my 1.0.2 backports; only changed it in
HEAD. If you want to keep it can we make it return a BIO? Many platforms
could use it then for serial debug output etc.


-- 
dwmw2



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