[Help-gnutls] Thread cancellation

Nikos Mavroyanopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Sun Dec 21 10:52:39 CET 2003


On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:01:07AM -0600, Scott Lamb wrote:

> >According to Werner Libgcrypt is also not cancelation safe, but
> >this may change within the 1.2.x releases of libgcrypt (libgcrypt
> >already depends on pthread due to some locking required).
> libgcrypt depending on pthread is an argument for making gnutls use it, 
> IMHO. If you're worried about extending its dependencies, gnutls -> 
> libpthread is no worse than gnutls -> libgcrypt -> libpthread.
> But if you just don't want to complicate things, no worries. I think I 
> can accomplish what I want anyway (below).

It's nice to hear that this could be avoided. At least for now
I'll try to postpone adding this since I'm busy working on some other
features.


> Thanks,
> Scott Lamb

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Nikos Mavroyanopoulos





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