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Change the memory leak FAQ entry to describe the levels of thread safety in each function

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Richard Levitte 2005-03-23 21:14:59 +00:00
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@ -793,9 +793,20 @@ that is allocated when an application starts up. Since such tables do not grow
in size over time they are harmless.
These internal tables can be freed up when an application closes using various
functions. Currently these include: EVP_cleanup(), ERR_remove_state(),
ERR_free_strings(), ENGINE_cleanup(), CONF_modules_unload() and
CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data().
functions. Currently these include following:
Thread-local cleanup functions:
ERR_remove_state()
Application-global cleanup functions that are aware of usage (and therefore
thread-safe):
ENGINE_cleanup() and CONF_modules_unload()
"Brutal" (thread-unsafe) Application-global cleanup functions:
ERR_free_strings(), EVP_cleanup() and CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data().
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