Commit e9edfc41 authored by Rich Salz's avatar Rich Salz
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RT468: SSL_CTX_sess_set_cache_size wrong 

The documentation is wrong about what happens when the
session cache fills up.

Reviewed-by: default avatarTim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
parent af4c6e34

doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_sess_set_cache_size.pod

+4 −2
Changes for doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_sess_set_cache_size.pod: 4 added lines, 2 removed lines.
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@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ SSL_CTX_sess_set_cache_size, SSL_CTX_sess_get_cache_size - manipulate session ca 


SSL_CTX_sess_set_cache_size() sets the size of the internal session cache

of context B<ctx> to B<t>.

This value is a hint and not an absolute; see the notes below.



SSL_CTX_sess_get_cache_size() returns the currently valid session cache size.
@@ -25,8 +26,9 @@ currently 1024*20, so that up to 20000 sessions can be held. This size 
can be modified using the SSL_CTX_sess_set_cache_size() call. A special

case is the size 0, which is used for unlimited size.



When the maximum number of sessions is reached, no more new sessions are

added to the cache. New space may be added by calling

If adding the session makes the cache exceed its size, then unused

sessions are dropped from the end of the cache.

Cache space may also be reclaimed by calling

L<SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)|SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)> to remove

expired sessions.