SSL disadvantage?

[Fabregas]

"SSL is placed on top of the TCP/IP layers, you substitutes the TCP calls with the SSL calls and that means that the programmer of the implementation has to know a lot about the OS and its specific system calls."

I am not sure about this SSL disadvantage one of my friend told me about this. Can you help me out?

[Rock]

"SSL is placed on top of the TCP/IP layers, you substitutes the TCP calls with the SSL calls and that means that the programmer of the implementation has to know a lot about the OS and its specific system calls."

I am not sure about this SSL disadvantage one of my friend told me about this. Can you help me out?

I wonder if Micke Pettersson is your friend Read more about the SSL disadvantages here.