From cc85ec447b65509070a50414664d62d397701df9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bodo=20M=C3=B6ller?= <bodo@openssl.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:16:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Disable RegQueryValueEx() call. Problem reported by "Wolfgang
 Marczy" <WMarczy@topcall.co.at> in a message to openssl-dev (19 Dec 2000
 13:40:51 +0100).

---
 crypto/rand/rand_win.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crypto/rand/rand_win.c b/crypto/rand/rand_win.c
index e1beef622e..56558c4f15 100644
--- a/crypto/rand/rand_win.c
+++ b/crypto/rand/rand_win.c
@@ -254,6 +254,10 @@ int RAND_poll(void)
          * at random times on Windows 2000.  Reported by Jeffrey Altman.  
          * Only use it on NT.
 	 */
+	/* Wolfgang Marczy <WMarczy@topcall.co.at> reports that
+	 * the RegQueryValueEx call below can hang on NT4.0 (SP6).
+	 * So we don't use this at all for now. */
+#if 0
         if ( osverinfo.dwPlatformId == VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT &&
 		osverinfo.dwMajorVersion < 5)
 		{
@@ -290,6 +294,7 @@ int RAND_poll(void)
 		if (buf)
 			free(buf);
 		}
+#endif
 
 	if (advapi)
 		{
-- 
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