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| author |   beck <beck@openbsd.org> | 2002-05-15 02:29:01 +0000 |
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| committer | beck <beck@openbsd.org> | 2002-05-15 02:29:01 +0000 |
| commit | da347917d3d3e5d3ece379d298f4e183b4828151 (patch) | |
| tree | 4667bec6fb5a5191ed165d4bf727adbb97475bcb /lib/libssl/src/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod | |
| parent | OpenSSL 0.9.7 (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-openbsd-da347917d3d3e5d3ece379d298f4e183b4828151.tar.xz wireguard-openbsd-da347917d3d3e5d3ece379d298f4e183b4828151.zip | |
OpenSSL 0.9.7 stable 2002 05 08 merge
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libssl/src/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libssl/src/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libssl/src/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod b/lib/libssl/src/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod index a0266e2ac63..dd9aba40b6a 100644 --- a/lib/libssl/src/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod +++ b/lib/libssl/src/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod @@ -37,8 +37,16 @@ if the session is valid, it can be removed at any time due to timeout during L<SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)|SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)>. If the data is to be kept, SSL_get1_session() will increment the reference -count and the session will stay in memory until explicitly freed with -L<SSL_SESSION_free(3)|SSL_SESSION_free(3)>, regardless of its state. +count, so that the session will not be implicitly removed by other operations +but stays in memory. In order to remove the session +L<SSL_SESSION_free(3)|SSL_SESSION_free(3)> must be explicitly called once +to decrement the reference count again. + +SSL_SESSION objects keep internal link information about the session cache +list, when being inserted into one SSL_CTX object's session cache. +One SSL_SESSION object, regardless of its reference count, must therefore +only be used with one SSL_CTX object (and the SSL objects created +from this SSL_CTX object). =head1 RETURN VALUES |