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| author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2021-04-21 16:51:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2021-05-11 14:56:55 +0100 |
| commit | f12a5690de906c05031f0195b6dec6925ff27231 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d4ea21b4d574ec86091c27cd1c530356534c2df /doc/man3 | |
| parent | a16d21744df686a7c005d1f129915d9083476e14 (diff) | |
Add the concept of a child OSSL_LIB_CTX
Add a child OSSL_LIB_CTX that will mirror the providers loaded into the
parent libctx. This is useful for providers that want to use algorithms
from other providers and just need to inherit the providers used by the
application.
Fixes #14925
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14991)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/OSSL_LIB_CTX.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_LIB_CTX.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_LIB_CTX.pod index 9796c8575c..1af8e53d7b 100644 --- a/doc/man3/OSSL_LIB_CTX.pod +++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_LIB_CTX.pod @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ OSSL_LIB_CTX_set0_default typedef struct ossl_lib_ctx_st OSSL_LIB_CTX; OSSL_LIB_CTX *OSSL_LIB_CTX_new(void); - OSSL_LIB_CTX *OSSL_LIB_CTX_new_from_dispatch(const OSSL_DISPATCH *in); + OSSL_LIB_CTX *OSSL_LIB_CTX_new_from_dispatch(const OSSL_CORE_HANDLE *handle, + const OSSL_DISPATCH *in); int OSSL_LIB_CTX_load_config(OSSL_LIB_CTX *ctx, const char *config_file); void OSSL_LIB_CTX_free(OSSL_LIB_CTX *ctx); OSSL_LIB_CTX *OSSL_LIB_CTX_get0_global_default(void); @@ -36,10 +37,11 @@ OSSL_LIB_CTX_new() creates a new OpenSSL library context. OSSL_LIB_CTX_new_from_dispatch() creates a new OpenSSL library context initialised to use callbacks from the OSSL_DISPATCH structure. This is primarily -useful for provider authors. The dispatch structure passed should be the same -one as passed to a provider's OSSL_provider_init function in the I<in> argument. -Some OpenSSL functions, such as L<BIO_new_from_core_bio(3)>, require the library -context to be created in this way in order to work. +useful for provider authors. The I<handle> and dispatch structure arguments +passed should be the same ones as passed to a provider's +OSSL_provider_init function. Some OpenSSL functions, such as +L<BIO_new_from_core_bio(3)>, require the library context to be created in this +way in order to work. OSSL_LIB_CTX_load_config() loads a configuration file using the given C<ctx>. This can be used to associate a library context with providers that are loaded |