X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fssleay.txt;h=c6049d5e53ba2bd8b8b9e7a893a674116bdbe088;hp=094e28ce48dc5e5be7d33fe2b1c352f2a70fc981;hb=e2c9c91b5b4b836fef2839c50eca4fe574242a7f;hpb=155d7a0e1dcf225f635dc522b272606590112c58 diff --git a/doc/ssleay.txt b/doc/ssleay.txt index 094e28ce48..c6049d5e53 100644 --- a/doc/ssleay.txt +++ b/doc/ssleay.txt @@ -1,6 +1,22 @@ Bundle of old SSLeay documentation files [OBSOLETE!] +*** WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! *** + +OBSOLETE means that nothing in this document should be trusted. This +document is provided mostly for historical purposes (it wasn't even up +to date at the time SSLeay 0.8.1 was released) and as inspiration. If +you copy some snippet of code from this document, please _check_ that +it really is correct from all points of view. For example, you can +check with the other documents in this directory tree, or by comparing +with relevant parts of the include files. + +People have done the mistake of trusting what's written here. Please +don't do that. + +*** WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! *** + + ==== readme ======================================================== This is the old 0.6.6 docuementation. Most of the cipher stuff is still @@ -5743,7 +5759,7 @@ strucutre but also the private key and certificate associated with EXAMPLES. -So lets play at being a wierd SSL server. +So lets play at being a weird SSL server. /* setup a context */ ctx=SSL_CTX_new(); @@ -6710,8 +6726,8 @@ CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(locking_function); before any multithreading is started. id_function does not need to be defined under Windows NT or 95, the correct function will be called if it is not. Under unix, getpid() -is call if the id_callback is not defined, for solaris this is wrong -(since threads id's are not pid's) but under IRIX it is correct +is call if the id_callback is not defined, for Solaris this is wrong +(since threads id's are not pid's) but under Linux it is correct (threads are just processes sharing the data segement). The locking_callback is used to perform locking by the SSLeay library.