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| author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2005-06-13 04:17:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2005-06-13 04:17:12 +0000 |
| commit | a7c924c0415c04795533b0534bbcadd15ff4193f (patch) | |
| tree | 672298b02aab608098528e93719baee0ec3ecf2f | |
| parent | 27b762af60d36698affe92e3aca2564a71bb6c73 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-a7c924c0415c04795533b0534bbcadd15ff4193f.tar.gz | |
0.9.8-beta5 works on VMS/Alpha
| -rw-r--r-- | STATUS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/threads.pod | 15 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@ OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at - ______________ $Date: 2005/06/13 03:36:58 $ + ______________ $Date: 2005/06/13 04:17:08 $ DEVELOPMENT STATE o OpenSSL 0.9.9: Under development... o OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta5: Released on June 13th, 2005 + OpenVMS/Alpha 7.3-2 w. Compaq C 6.4-005 SUCCESS o OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta4: Released on June 6th, 2005 o OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta3: Released on May 31th, 2005 o OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta2: Released on May 24th, 2005 diff --git a/doc/crypto/threads.pod b/doc/crypto/threads.pod index c7fca5a531..98373a9ca8 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/threads.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/threads.pod @@ -65,9 +65,18 @@ B<CRYPTO_LOCK>, and releases it otherwise. B<file> and B<line> are the file number of the function setting the lock. They can be useful for debugging. -id_function(void) is a function that returns a thread ID. It is not -needed on Windows nor on platforms where getpid() returns a different -ID for each thread (most notably Linux). +id_function(void) is a function that returns a thread ID, for +instance, pthread_self(). It is not, needed on Windows nor on +platforms where getpid() returns a different ID for each thread. +However, even on those platforms, pthread_self() should be used, since +the behavior of getpid() may depend on the machine where the program +is being run, not the machine where the program is being compiled. +(For instance, Red Hat 8 Linux and earlier used LinuxThreads, whose +getpid() returns a different value for each thread; Red Hat 9 Linux +and later use NPTL, which is Posix-conformant, and thus whose getpid() +returns the same value for all threads in a process. But a program +compiled on Red Hat 8 and run on Red Hat 9 will by default see +getpid() returning the same value for all threads.) Additionally, OpenSSL supports dynamic locks, and sometimes, some parts of OpenSSL need it for better performance. To enable this, the following |