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Clarify reference count handling/removal of session

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Lutz Jänicke 2001-11-19 11:12:30 +00:00
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doc/ssl/SSL_get_session.pod
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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.