forking new process when calling gnutls_global_init() function

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:58, h.habib at gmail.com said:
> gnutls_global_init() function at the time of initialization of TLS a
> new process is forked printing following trace in console.
>
> [New process 28026]
>  warning: reading `r3' register: No data
>  Detaching after fork from process 28026

Frankly, I still don't understand the origin of this message.  My
interpretation is that some process reads a register named r3 and
returns no data.  Whatever this means.  The entire output looks like a
system call trace utility - I don't know HPUX enough to tell. 

> One more think the same code is running fine in LINUX OS without
> creating any new process.

Right.  Thai is because it uses /dev/random.  As stated when configuring
libgcrypt, you are better off running the EGD:

   The performance of the Unix random gatherer module (rndunix) is not
   very good and it does not keep the entropy pool over multiple
   invocations of Libgcrypt base applications.  The suggested way to
   overcome this problem is to use the
  
                 Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD)
  
   which provides a entropy source for the whole system.  It is written
   in Perl and available at the GnuPG FTP servers.  To enable EGD you
   should rerun configure with the option "--enable-static-rnd=egd".
   For more information consult the GnuPG webpages:
  
             http://www.gnupg.org/download.html#egd



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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