Commit a7ce69db authored by Lutz Jänicke's avatar Lutz Jänicke
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Clarify reference count handling/removal of session

(shinagawa@star.zko.dec.com).
parent 9d93ce24
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@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ 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.