Re: OpenSSL Applink - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: OpenSSL Applink
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Msg-id 46FD22B9.4080004@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: OpenSSL Applink  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
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Dave Page wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Dave Page wrote:
>>> I believe we just didn't notice it until now because the older Mingw
>>> builds use the MSVC 6.0 runtimes which just happened to be compatible
>>> with the OpenSSL binary builds (we're now using 8.0), in addition to
>>> which there are relatively few people using client-side certs I'd wager.
>>
>> So SSL works without this wart if you don't have a client cert?
>
> Yep.

According to the OpenSSL FAQ, the purpose of the applink is to allow
mixing release and debug versions or multi-threaded and
non-multithreaded versions of libraries:

http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG2

How come we only bump into the crash with client certs?

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  Heikki Linnakangas
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