On 06/03/2019 18:38, Jordan Brown wrote:
On 3/5/2019 1:16 PM, Yann Ylavic wrote:
Furthermore, if that scenario were a real use case, it'd mean that
libldap could initialize openssl with no regard to httpd needs,
Everybody has to play nice, but ... yes. Random libraries might need
OpenSSL for their own reasons, and the application cannot predict
which libraries might need it or what those reasons might be. OpenSSL
must be designed to be used by multiple non-coordinated components
running in the same process, including by dynamically loaded and
unloaded shared objects.
Which is why using the reference count already kept by the OS
loader is such a nice solution.
Enjoy
Jakob
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