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@@ -4,6 +4,30 @@ Changes between 0.9.8i and 0.9.9 [xx XXX xxxx] + *) To cater for systems that provide a pointer-based thread ID rather + than numeric, deprecate the current numeric thread ID mechanism and + replace it with a structure and associated callback type. This + mechanism allows a numeric "hash" to be extracted from a thread ID in + either case, and on platforms where pointers are larger than 'long', + mixing is done to help ensure the numeric 'hash' is usable even if it + can't be guaranteed unique. The default mechanism is to use "&errno" + as a pointer-based thread ID to distinguish between threads. + + Applications that want to provide their own thread IDs should now use + CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback() to register a callback that will call + either CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer(). + + (This new approach replaces the functions CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(), + CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_idptr() that existed in + OpenSSL 0.9.9-dev between June 2006 and August 2008. Also, if an + application was previously providing a numeric thread callback that + was inappropriate for distinguishing threads, then uniqueness might + have been obtained with &errno that happened immediately in the + intermediate development versions of OpenSSL; this is no longer the + case, the numeric thread callback will now override the automatic use + of &errno.) + [Geoff Thorpe, with help from Bodo Moeller] + *) Initial support for different CRL issuing certificates. This covers a simple case where the self issued certificates in the chain exist and the real CRL issuer is higher in the existing chain. @@ -307,30 +331,6 @@ list-message-digest-algorithms and list-cipher-algorithms. [Steve Henson] - *) In addition to the numerical (unsigned long) thread ID, provide - for a pointer (void *) thread ID. This helps accomodate systems - that do not provide an unsigned long thread ID. OpenSSL assumes - it is in the same thread iff both the numerical and the pointer - thread ID agree; so applications are just required to define one - of them appropriately (e.g., by using a pointer to a per-thread - memory object malloc()ed by the application for the pointer-type - thread ID). Exactly analoguous to the existing functions - - void CRYPTO_set_id_callback(unsigned long (*func)(void)); - unsigned long (*CRYPTO_get_id_callback(void))(void); - unsigned long CRYPTO_thread_id(void); - - we now have additional functions - - void CRYPTO_set_idptr_callback(void *(*func)(void)); - void *(*CRYPTO_get_idptr_callback(void))(void); - void *CRYPTO_thread_idptr(void); - - also in <openssl/crypto.h>. The default value for - CRYPTO_thread_idptr() if the application has not provided its own - callback is &errno. - [Bodo Moeller] - *) Change the array representation of binary polynomials: the list of degrees of non-zero coefficients is now terminated with -1. Previously it was terminated with 0, which was also part of the |