[Info-vax] An HP SSL mystery

[John Malmberg]

On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 6:51:05 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-23 04:18:23 +0000, Steven Schweda said:
> 
> >    The quick (obvious?) work-around seems to do the job:
> >       define SSLROOT SSL$ROOT
> > 
> >    So, is this a long-standing bug in HP SSL, or am I missing something 
> > obvious (again), or what?  (I noticed nothing relevant in the HP SSL 
> > release notes.)
> > 
> >    Observed with HP AXPVMS SSL V1.4-502 and HP I64VMS SSL V1.4-502, and 
> > in some older 1.4-3?? version (which I updated to -502, to no avail).

It does look like there is an inconsistency.

VMS programming conventions are that all logical names for a layered product should have a prefix followed by a dollar sign to prevent name space collisions with customer programs.

Which means that SSL_ROOT is not a legal logical name to use at the system level in a layered product.

Having ssl_root referenced in the shared image instead of ssl$root is a bug.

Locally defining SSL_ROOT will probably be fine as a work around.

Has someone reported this to HP?

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network