[Python-Dev] Python for windows. (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Nov 28 07:42:43 CET 2008

Applink is roughly explained at http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG2. The matter was discussed about half a year ago but no decision was made. See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077424.html

applink.c is just a table of integer constants to function pointers. It makes mixing of different CRTs secure. You'll get the idea after reading the file, Martin. A similar approach could be useful for Python, too.

I (now) understand all that. I still don't understand why Python should use it, for OpenSSL. (that Python might use something like that for itself is probably not the point Larry is trying to make).

Now that I read the archives, I see that I didn't understand in February what specific problem would be solved. I still don't see today how it would solve a problem.

Regards, Martin

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