Commit 45582d1e authored by Bodo Möller's avatar Bodo Möller
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clarify

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@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@ OpenSSL can safely be used in multi-threaded applications provided
that at least two callback functions are set.

locking_function(int mode, int n, const char *file, int line) is
needed to perform locking on shared data structures. Multi-threaded
applications will crash at random if it is not set.
needed to perform locking on shared data structures. 
(Note that OpenSSL uses a number of global data structures that
will be implicitly shared whenever multiple threads use OpenSSL.)
Multi-threaded applications will crash at random if it is not set.

locking_function() must be able to handle up to CRYPTO_num_locks()
different mutex locks. It sets the B<n>-th lock if B<mode> &