forking new process when calling gnutls_global_init() function

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Sun Feb 17 17:34:50 CET 2008


The fork is in libgcrypt (rndunix.c), so I think it is an appropriate
question for the libgcrypt list.  As far as I understand, there is
nothing we can do to avoid the fork from gnutls.

/Simon

"Haidar Habib" <h.habib at gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks for ur response. Actually I raised this to gnutls mailing list
> but they replied that there is no call to fork in that and asked to
> raised this to gcrypt mailing list. So I raised this here.
> So pls help if you can in this regard.
>
> Regards,
> Haidar Habib
>
> On Feb 15, 2008 11:11 PM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:33, h.habib at gmail.com said:
>>
>> > I am using gnutls and libgcrypt in my application for using TLS in
>> > HP-UX. But when calling gnutls_global_init() function it forking a new
>>
>> Please direct your questions to the gnutls mailing list and not to this
>> one (which is dedicated to libgcrypt).
>>
>>
>> Salam-Shalom,
>>
>>   Werner
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
>
>
>
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> Md. Haidar Habib
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