Bingo!

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

-- Gabor Gombas <gombasg at sztaki.hu> is rumored to have mumbled on 17. 
November 2007 14:34:02 +0100 regarding Re: Bingo!:

>> I'm not sure what to make of that. I would assume that we've got a
>> blocking  BIO, because it is - d'oh - blocking. But I don't see how you
>> influence  what kind of BIO you use.
>
> A BIO is non-blocking if the underlying file (socket) descriptor has the
> O_NONBLOCK flag set, either during open or by a previous call to
> fcntl().
>
> And yes, if O_NONBLOCK was not set on a socket, then any OpenSSL
> operations can block pretty much indefinitely.

Thanks for the explanation.
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