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@@ -416,6 +416,24 @@ no-pic Don't build with support for Position Independent Code. + no-pinshared By default OpenSSL will attempt to stay in memory until the + process exits. This is so that libcrypto and libssl can be + properly cleaned up automatically via an "atexit()" handler. + The handler is registered by libcrypto and cleans up both + libraries. On some platforms the atexit() handler will run on + unload of libcrypto (if it has been dynamically loaded) + rather than at process exit. This option can be used to stop + OpenSSL from attempting to stay in memory until the process + exits. This could lead to crashes if either libcrypto or + libssl have already been unloaded at the point + that the atexit handler is invoked, e.g. on a platform which + calls atexit() on unload of the library, and libssl is + unloaded before libcrypto then a crash is likely to happen. + Applications can suppress running of the atexit() handler at + run time by using the OPENSSL_INIT_NO_ATEXIT option to + OPENSSL_init_crypto(). See the man page for it for further + details. + no-posix-io Don't use POSIX IO capabilities. |