[gnutls-dev] Re: living without global variables

[Bryan Henderson]

>The proper way for other
>libraries to use libgcrypt is by wrapping this init function and to
>allow the caller to actually initialize Libgcrypt (hidden in a
>wrapper function).  
>
>Unfortunately gnutls does not do this. 

Doesn't it?  gnutls' global init function does _something_ with
Libgcrypt.  How is that different?

>In fact Libgcrypt should never be unloaded but kept in memory for the
>lifetime of the process.

I'm sure you have reasons for this belief, which is essentially that
modularity is not appropriate where Libgcrypt is involved, but it would
be nice if a user had a choice over this policy.

>the only way to make
>Libgcrypt thread safe is by delegating the initialization to the
>actual application - only the application knows what threading model
>it is going to use.

Assuming you have to have global variables, of course.

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