Commit 6141b86a authored by Richard Levitte's avatar Richard Levitte
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Change the memory leak FAQ entry to describe the levels of thread safety in each function

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FAQ

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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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