forking new process when calling gnutls_global_init() function

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Feb 18 09:28:28 CET 2008


On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:34, simon at josefsson.org said:

> 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.

Ah okay.  That is the entropy gatherer as used on HPUX.  

Continuing on gcrypt-devel.

Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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