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| author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2018-11-15 16:27:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2019-01-04 20:23:16 +0000 |
| commit | c2b3db245452f185948b4f767f7e1051b6bd59a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a0e112eada52675c7d40f7fdbb9cdb53685b08d /doc | |
| parent | f725fe5b4b6504df08e30f5194d321c3025e2336 (diff) | |
Implement OPENSSL_INIT_NO_ATEXIT
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7983)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod index a259539f05..b53ab6bd10 100644 --- a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod +++ b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ As of version 1.1.0 OpenSSL will automatically allocate all resources that it needs so no explicit initialisation is required. Similarly it will also automatically deinitialise as required. -However, there way be situations when explicit initialisation is desirable or +However, there may be situations when explicit initialisation is desirable or needed, for example when some non-default initialisation is required. The function OPENSSL_init_crypto() can be used for this purpose for libcrypto (see also L<OPENSSL_init_ssl(3)> for the libssl @@ -157,6 +157,13 @@ engines. This not a default option. With this option the library will register its fork handlers. See OPENSSL_fork_prepare(3) for details. +=item OPENSSL_INIT_NO_ATEXIT + +By default OpenSSL will attempt to clean itself up when the process exits via an +"atexit" handler. Using this option suppresses that behaviour. This means that +the application will have to clean up OpenSSL explicitly using +OPENSSL_cleanup(). + =back Multiple options may be combined together in a single call to |