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authorAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2000-02-25 15:44:03 +0000
committerAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2000-02-25 15:44:03 +0000
commitdbe7113308be983d5407393784f70517e081dbfa (patch)
treecd9f9d8137bdc842671f7a3027b3905f4dba5e2b /doc
parent1c890fa86415d7f739509701e213a2093fe53438 (diff)
There're two (incompatible) ways to write multi-threaded programs under
IRIX, one is to call sproc(2) when every thread does get own pid and POSIX threads when all the threads share same pid.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ssleay.txt b/doc/ssleay.txt
index 094e28ce48..3e964c2e9a 100644
--- a/doc/ssleay.txt
+++ b/doc/ssleay.txt
@@ -6710,8 +6710,8 @@ CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(locking_function);
before any multithreading is started.
id_function does not need to be defined under Windows NT or 95, the
correct function will be called if it is not. Under unix, getpid()
-is call if the id_callback is not defined, for solaris this is wrong
-(since threads id's are not pid's) but under IRIX it is correct
+is call if the id_callback is not defined, for Solaris this is wrong
+(since threads id's are not pid's) but under Linux it is correct
(threads are just processes sharing the data segement).
The locking_callback is used to perform locking by the SSLeay library.