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| author | Lutz Jänicke <jaenicke@openssl.org> | 2001-11-19 11:11:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Lutz Jänicke <jaenicke@openssl.org> | 2001-11-19 11:11:23 +0000 |
| commit | a7ce69dbd7a63062f9a986d45976f124433c66b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 8fbb46e19af2067d253c20313c7528e640195da2 /doc | |
| parent | 9d93ce246cad0fcc66f5cdaa822b2926ffa256b5 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-new-a7ce69dbd7a63062f9a986d45976f124433c66b0.tar.gz | |
Clarify reference count handling/removal of session
(shinagawa@star.zko.dec.com).
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod b/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod index 8547faa58b..dd9aba40b6 100644 --- a/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod +++ b/doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod @@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ if the session is valid, it can be removed at any time due to timeout during L<SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)|SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)>. If the data is to be kept, SSL_get1_session() will increment the reference -count and the session will stay in memory until explicitly freed with -L<SSL_SESSION_free(3)|SSL_SESSION_free(3)>, regardless of its state. +count, so that the session will not be implicitly removed by other operations +but stays in memory. In order to remove the session +L<SSL_SESSION_free(3)|SSL_SESSION_free(3)> must be explicitly called once +to decrement the reference count again. SSL_SESSION objects keep internal link information about the session cache list, when being inserted into one SSL_CTX object's session cache. |