FreeTDS Development Group

[Peter Deacon <peterd AT iea-software.com>]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:

> I added again OpenSSL support (in CVS HEAD). It can be used for SSL
> connection using mssql (instead of GnuTLS but not require any patch).
> Pay attention that linking to OpenSSL require you to add a "This product
> includes software written by Eric Young (eay AT cryptsoft.com)". See
> OpenSSL license for details at
> http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html.

Das cool :)

> It seems that even OpenSSL has a library leak similar to GnuTLS one so
> every time you load/use/unload openssl library a leak occur (the same
> happen to all libraries that use openssl).
> See http://freetds.sourceforge.net/out/test2/out.html for details.

I think the problem might be with the global data loaded when openssl 
starts up.  You can use ERR_free_strings and EVP_cleanup to axe the global 
structures at shutdown.

Have Fun!
Peter