[Info-vax] An HP SSL mystery

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

John Malmberg skrev den 2015-06-23 17:09:
> 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
>

A detail maybe, but it was SSLROOT,  Not SSL_ROOT... :-)