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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod')
| -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. |