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| author | Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> | 2005-12-26 18:02:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> | 2005-12-26 18:02:06 +0000 |
| commit | 4f50feabd3455c4b5d9946050204cdf7af2be9b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 8dad669d724437899352b07e2045c575b248736c | |
| parent | 3649c545ec5d8a9b851f10404d45cef781c65ef2 (diff) | |
| download | gnutls-4f50feabd3455c4b5d9946050204cdf7af2be9b4.tar.gz | |
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@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ been called as many times as gnutls_global_init() was called. ** Fix crash in TLS resume code, caused by TLS/IA changes. +** Documentation fixes about thread unsafety, prompted by +** discussion with bryanh@giraffe-data.com (Bryan Henderson). +In particular, gnutls_global_init() and gnutls_global_deinit() are not +thread safe. Careful callers may want to protect the call using a +mutex. The problem could also be ignored, which would cause a memory +leak under rare conditions when two threads invoke the function +roughly at the same time. + ** The code was indented again, including the external header files. ** API and ABI modifications: |