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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3/BIO_s_mem.pod')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/BIO_s_mem.pod b/doc/man3/BIO_s_mem.pod index 2a5d423648..9c62955e0f 100644 --- a/doc/man3/BIO_s_mem.pod +++ b/doc/man3/BIO_s_mem.pod @@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ If the BIO_CLOSE flag is set when a memory BIO is freed then the underlying BUF_MEM structure is also freed. Calling BIO_reset() on a read write memory BIO clears any data in it if the -flag BIO_FLAGS_NONCLEAR_RST is not set. On a read only BIO or if the flag -BIO_FLAGS_NONCLEAR_RST is set it restores the BIO to its original state and -the data can be read again. +flag BIO_FLAGS_NONCLEAR_RST is not set, otherwise it just restores the read +pointer to the state it was just after the last write was performed and the +data can be read again. On a read only BIO it similarly restores the BIO to +its original state and the read only data can be read again. BIO_eof() is true if no data is in the BIO. @@ -79,11 +80,11 @@ first, so the supplied area of memory must be unchanged until the BIO is freed. Writes to memory BIOs will always succeed if memory is available: that is their size can grow indefinitely. -Every read from a read write memory BIO will remove the data just read with -an internal copy operation, if a BIO contains a lot of data and it is -read in small chunks the operation can be very slow. The use of a read only -memory BIO avoids this problem. If the BIO must be read write then adding -a buffering BIO to the chain will speed up the process. +Every write after partial read (not all data in the memory buffer was read) +to a read write memory BIO will have to move the unread data with an internal +copy operation, if a BIO contains a lot of data and it is read in small +chunks intertwined with writes the operation can be very slow. Adding +a buffering BIO to the chain can speed up the process. Calling BIO_set_mem_buf() on a BIO created with BIO_new_secmem() will give undefined results, including perhaps a program crash. @@ -104,6 +105,15 @@ BIO is set to BIO_NOCLOSE, before freeing the BUF_MEM the data pointer in it must be set to NULL as the data pointer does not point to an allocated memory. +Calling BIO_reset() on a read write memory BIO with BIO_FLAGS_NONCLEAR_RST +flag set can have unexpected outcome when the reads and writes to the +BIO are intertwined. As documented above the BIO will be reset to the +state after the last completed write operation. The effects of reads +preceeding that write operation cannot be undone. + +Calling BIO_get_mem_ptr() prior to a BIO_reset() call with +BIO_FLAGS_NONCLEAR_RST set has the same effect as a write operation. + =head1 BUGS There should be an option to set the maximum size of a memory BIO. |