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51 .Dd $Mdocdate: August 21 2017 $
52 .Dt SSL_CTX_FLUSH_SESSIONS 3
55 .Nm SSL_CTX_flush_sessions
56 .Nd remove expired sessions
60 .Fn SSL_CTX_flush_sessions "SSL_CTX *ctx" "long tm"
62 .Fn SSL_CTX_flush_sessions
63 causes a run through the session cache of
65 to remove sessions expired at time
68 If enabled, the internal session cache will collect all sessions established
69 up to the specified maximum number (see
70 .Xr SSL_CTX_sess_set_cache_size 3 ) .
71 As sessions will not be reused once they are expired, they should be
72 removed from the cache to save resources.
73 This can either be done automatically whenever 255 new sessions were
75 .Xr SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode 3 )
76 or manually by calling
77 .Fn SSL_CTX_flush_sessions .
81 specifies the time which should be used for the
82 expiration test, in most cases the actual time given by
86 .Fn SSL_CTX_flush_sessions
87 will only check sessions stored in the internal cache.
88 When a session is found and removed, the
90 is however called to synchronize with the external cache (see
91 .Xr SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb 3 ) .
94 .Xr SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb 3 ,
95 .Xr SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode 3 ,
96 .Xr SSL_CTX_set_timeout 3