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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2002-11-14 23:33:28 +0000 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2002-11-14 23:33:28 +0000 |
commit | 35a6db86402290a6cbe05fc615e0c435eac40aea (patch) | |
tree | 23dfabbd0430acef524848c9c75fe45ed8e18a03 /crypto/rand/rand_win.c | |
parent | 56dc24d48315285ba3c0395d315282275217e597 (diff) |
Close the implicitely opened registry key.
PR: 264
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/rand/rand_win.c')
-rw-r--r-- | crypto/rand/rand_win.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/rand/rand_win.c b/crypto/rand/rand_win.c index c1b955b06f..242febe270 100644 --- a/crypto/rand/rand_win.c +++ b/crypto/rand/rand_win.c @@ -287,9 +287,18 @@ int RAND_poll(void) { /* For entropy count assume only least significant * byte of each DWORD is random. - */ + */ RAND_add(&length, sizeof(length), 0); RAND_add(buf, length, length / 4.0); + + /* Close the Registry Key to allow Windows to cleanup/close + * the open handle + * Note: The 'HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA' key is implicitly opened + * when the RegQueryValueEx above is done. However, if + * it is not explicitly closed, it can cause disk + * partition manipulation problems. + */ + RegCloseKey(HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA); } if (buf) free(buf); |