Hi, I'm working on an OpenSSL Engine implementation and I don't entirely get the idea behind Structural and Functional references. So, I'd be very grateful if someone could comment on my approach of handling references.
If I have multiple SSL connections using an engine at the same time, IS IT TRUE THAT- 1. I should have at least one structural and one functional reference for the entire duration within which the engine will be used i.e., between the calls to ENGINE_by_id() and ENGINE_cleanup(). Or can the structural reference be freed once a functional reference has been obtained? 2. Although various other functions like ENGINE_init(), ENGINE_set_default(), etc. increase the number of structural and functional references to my engine variable (as documented for each function), I should go on a free the extra references and should only maintain one structural and one functional reference to the engine at all times. Thank you, Sunjeet ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
