[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | GnuTLS leaks file descriptors in child processes (#985)

[Development of GNU's TLS library]

Tim Rühsen commented on a discussion: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/985#note_348040454

But let's think about what happens when being forked... should a forked thread fail, e.g. when in the middle of reading a file ? That might break the forked process or at least throws up errors - the consequences are unforseeable.

So each case of open / fopen has to be thought of. Forking a multi-threaded process without a defined state of the threads is almost uncontrollable and IMO one of the worst ideas I heard of in a long time.

@daiki I have to leave the decision on you.

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