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SSL_free(3)
NAME
  SSL_free - Free an allocated SSL structure

SYNOPSIS
  #include <openssl/ssl.h>

  void SSL_free(
	  SSL *ssl );

DESCRIPTION
  The SSL_free() function decrements the reference count of ssl, and removes
  the SSL structure pointed to by ssl and frees up the allocated memory if
  the the reference count has reached 0.

NOTES
  The SSL_free() function also calls the freeing procedures for indirectly
  affected items, if applicable: the buffering BIO, the read and write BIOs,
  cipher lists specially created for this ssl, the SSL_SESSION. Do not
  explicitly free these indirectly freed up items before or after calling the
  SSL_free() function.	Trying to free things twice may lead to program
  failure.

  The ssl session has reference counts from two users: the SSL object, for
  which the reference count is removed by the SSL_free() function and the
  internal session cache. If the session is considered bad, because the
  SSL_shutdown() function was not called for the connection and the
  SSL_set_shutdown() function was not used to set the SSL_SENT_SHUTDOWN
  state. The session will also be removed from the session cache as required
  by RFC2246.

RETURN VALUES
  The SSL_free() function does not provide diagnostic information.

SEE ALSO
  Functions: SSL_new(3), SSL_clear(3), SSL_shutdown(3), SSL_set_shutdown(3),
  ssl(3)

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