forking new process when calling gnutls_global_init() function

[h.habib at gmail.com]

I am using gnutls and libgcrypt in my application for using TLS in HP-UX. But when calling gnutls_global_init() function it forking a new process giving following trace
[New process 28026]
 warning: reading `r3' register: No data
 Detaching after fork from process 28026

Can you please help why this new process is being created and how to avoid this.