Re: (ITS#4583) TLS concurrency issues

[hyc@symas.com]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 05:25 PM 6/13/2006, hyc@symas.com wrote:
>   
>> it's likely that the overall 
>> problems in OpenSSL will be fixed in an upcoming release. When the fixes 
>> in OpenSSL become available, I will revert the mutex I added in HEAD 
>> libldap/tls.c.
>>     
>
> We'd then should require the fixed version of OpenSSL
> via a configure test... 

I guess as an alternative we could #ifdef the mutex calls based on the 
OpenSSL version. The only downside to using the mutex with current 
OpenSSL versions will be reduced concurrency for newly arriving connections.

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