Fwd: Re: [Help-gnutls] Why delay generating second and other keys?

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

Hello,
 I forward this bug report. It seems like a bug to exit()... I don't know if 
there are possible alternatives there though.

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Subject: Re: [Help-gnutls] Why delay generating second and other keys?
Date: Wednesday 26 October 2005 22:51
From: Fran <e_agf at yahoo.es>
To: help-gnutls at gnu.org

[...]

Another question:
Libcrypt use exit() in functions.

The function

> gnutls_x509_privkey_generate (key, key_type, bits, 0)

does not return any value because libcrypt function use exit(). For this
 reason a program that have this function can not known which is the problem.
 For example if

> gnutls_global_init();

is not called before.

> static void *
> _gcry_secmem_malloc_internal (size_t size)
> {
>   memblock_t *mb;
>
>   if (!pool_okay)
>     {
>       log_info (_
>         ("operation is not possible without initialized secure memory\n"));
>       exit (2);
> <<<<<<<--------------------------------------------------------------------
>---------------------------------------------------------------- }
>   if (show_warning && !suspend_warning)
>     {
>       show_warning = 0;
>       print_warn ();
>     }
>
>   /* Blocks are always a multiple of 32. */
>   size = ((size + 31) / 32) * 32;
>
>   mb = mb_get_new ((memblock_t *) pool, size);
>   if (mb)
>     stats_update (size, 0);
>
>   return mb ? &mb->aligned.c : NULL;
> }

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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos