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authorkris <kris@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-27 03:13:07 +0000
committerkris <kris@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-27 03:13:07 +0000
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Initial import of OpenSSL 0.9.6c
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@@ -37,8 +37,16 @@ if the session is valid, it can be removed at any time due to timeout
during L<SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)|SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)>.
If the data is to be kept, SSL_get1_session() will increment the reference
-count and the session will stay in memory until explicitly freed with
-L<SSL_SESSION_free(3)|SSL_SESSION_free(3)>, regardless of its state.
+count, so that the session will not be implicitly removed by other operations
+but stays in memory. In order to remove the session
+L<SSL_SESSION_free(3)|SSL_SESSION_free(3)> must be explicitly called once
+to decrement the reference count again.
+
+SSL_SESSION objects keep internal link information about the session cache
+list, when being inserted into one SSL_CTX object's session cache.
+One SSL_SESSION object, regardless of its reference count, must therefore
+only be used with one SSL_CTX object (and the SSL objects created
+from this SSL_CTX object).
=head1 RETURN VALUES
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