[openssl-dev] OpenSSL version 1.1.0 pre release 3 published
Viktor Dukhovni
openssl-users at dukhovni.org
Tue Feb 16 16:38:08 UTC 2016
> On Feb 16, 2016, at 11:17 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> If a library (or loadable plugin within an application) uses OpenSSL,
> how should it clean up after itself?
I must do nothing. That's what auto-initialization is for. It is
wrong for libraries to initialize OpenSSL, because that can't be
done safely. So in libraries that use OpenSSL, no OpenSSL initialization,
and no cleanup.
--
Viktor.
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