0.9.8-beta5 works on VMS/Alpha

  OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at

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  DEVELOPMENT STATE

    o  OpenSSL 0.9.9:  Under development...

    o  OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta5:  Released on June 13th, 2005

       OpenVMS/Alpha 7.3-2 w. Compaq C 6.4-005			SUCCESS

    o  OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta4:  Released on June 6th, 2005

    o  OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta3:  Released on May 31th, 2005

    o  OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta2:  Released on May 24th, 2005

B<file> and B<line> are the file number of the function setting the

lock. They can be useful for debugging.

id_function(void) is a function that returns a thread ID. It is not

needed on Windows nor on platforms where getpid() returns a different

ID for each thread (most notably Linux).

id_function(void) is a function that returns a thread ID, for

instance, pthread_self(). It is not, needed on Windows nor on

platforms where getpid() returns a different ID for each thread.

However, even on those platforms, pthread_self() should be used, since

the behavior of getpid() may depend on the machine where the program

is being run, not the machine where the program is being compiled.

(For instance, Red Hat 8 Linux and earlier used LinuxThreads, whose

getpid() returns a different value for each thread; Red Hat 9 Linux

and later use NPTL, which is Posix-conformant, and thus whose getpid()

returns the same value for all threads in a process.  But a program

compiled on Red Hat 8 and run on Red Hat 9 will by default see

getpid() returning the same value for all threads.)

Additionally, OpenSSL supports dynamic locks, and sometimes, some parts

of OpenSSL need it for better performance.  To enable this, the following