On Tue, Jan 06, 2004, Frédéric Giudicelli wrote:

> > Now that we have dynamic locks it would be possible to do things properly
> but
> > it hasn't been done yet.
> Has it been implemented for usual structs yet ? Because 0.9.7c it still uses
> those "ugly" global locks.
> 

Not yet no. It isn't too hard to do for the reference counting stuff where it
could use the global locks as a fallback and store dynamic locks in
structures.

It would be at least 0.9.8 when this done. Its too big a change for the bug
fix 0.9.7X releases.

> > That's been *reported* to work but I haven't tried it myself.
> Well, I honestly see no reasons why it wouldn't work, the SSL structure
> would be protected at a higher level that's all. Unless you have some thread
> associated datas in the SSL structures? (which I don't recall)
> 

I don't see any reason either but I can't rule out some obscure condition that
will mess it up. So I'm being cautious here in case it blows up and I get the
blame :-)

Steve.
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