PR: 2589

[openssl.git] / crypto / dso / README

diff --git a/crypto/dso/README b/crypto/dso/README
index 5a9b86f4c3420329d013e07f69b45ab500ee3177..d0bc9a89fbd44e2caa24419f38f70753f53553d5 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/dso/README
+++ b/crypto/dso/README
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-TODO
-----
-
-Get a fix on how the paths should be handled. For now, flags == 0
-and this is currently just passing strings directly onto the
-underlying system calls and letting them do what they want with
-the paths. However, it may be desirable to implement flags that
-control the way the loading is performed (or attempted), and I
-invisage that DSO_ctrl() will be used to control this.
-
 NOTES
 -----
 
@@ -18,5 +8,15 @@ according to their man page, prefer developers to move to that.
 I'll leave Richard's changes there as I guess dso_dl is needed
 for HPUX10.20.
 
-[G-T]
+There is now a callback scheme in place where filename conversion can
+(a) be turned off altogether through the use of the
+    DSO_FLAG_NO_NAME_TRANSLATION flag,
+(b) be handled by default using the default DSO_METHOD's converter
+(c) overriden per-DSO by setting the override callback
+(d) a mix of (b) and (c) - eg. implement an override callback that;
+    (i) checks if we're win32 (if(strstr(dso->meth->name, "win32")....)
+        and if so, convert "blah" into "blah32.dll" (the default is
+       otherwise to make it "blah.dll").
+    (ii) default to the normal behaviour - we're not on win32, eg.
+         finish with (return dso->meth->dso_name_converter(dso,NULL)).