Hi, all, I am writing some programs using openssl 0.9.6 and get some puzzling
questions about reference count in the SSL session. Basically, I am looking into
the internal data structure of SSL_SESSION:
...
int references;
} SSL_SESSION;
as defined in openssl/ssl.h
And from my understanding of ssl source code, the field is indeed used for
reference counting purpose (if it drops to zero, the whole structure is freed).
What is puzzling is that when a fresh SSL_connect() succeeds, I use
SSL_get_session() to retrieve the SSL_SESSION point, and prints the references
field, it is 2. After I call SSL_free(), it is 1. There is no sharing of session
whatsoever (one connection in my program).
Does this mean there is memory leak for the session object? Or there is some
magic somewhere else? Or my understanding is not correct?
Any suggestion/help is welcomed. Thanks.
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