I am TENTATIVELY checking in Martin von Loewis's patch for the SSL

gvanrossum · gvanrossum · commit 058dae37a668 · 2001-04-13T17:54:04.000Z
problem reported by Neil Schemenauer on python-dev on 4/12/01, wth
subject "Problem with SSL and socketmodule on Debian Potato?".

It's tentative because Moshe objected, but Martin rebutted, and Moshe
seems unavailable for comments.

(Note that with OpenSSL 0.9.6a, I get a lot of compilation warnings
for socketmodule.c -- I'm assuming I can safely ignore these until 2.1
is released.)
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@ Socket methods:
 #include "openssl/ssl.h"
 #include "openssl/err.h"
 #include "openssl/rand.h"
+
+#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x0090510fL
+/* RAND_status was added in OpenSSL 0.9.5. If it is not available,
+   we assume that seeding the RNG is necessary every time. */
+#define RAND_status()	0
+#endif
+
 #endif /* USE_SSL */
 
 #if defined(MS_WINDOWS) || defined(__BEOS__)
