On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 03:44:21AM -0500, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > This isn't neccessary. It's possible to create two sockets with > socketpair(), and fork(). Then close FD's 0 and 1 in the child and clone one > of the socket FD's onto FD's 0 and 1 before closing it. Then you can exec() > openssl s_client or stunnel -c and use the socket in the parent just like > one you would have called connect() on.
Hmm.. there's race conditions with that approach, and the code isn't really designed in a fashion which lets me see whether they're dealt with properly. The documentation I've found isn't particularly encouraging. From openssl.pod: s_client ... "It's intended for testing purposes only". -- Raul
