Re: Pfork() question/problem

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:32:54 +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

JES>Do you use a thread-safe AES-library? The normal library use global
JES>arrays, so if you call the AES simultanously from two threads you'll
JES>mess up boths calls. You need to use a library that passes an address
JES>to the global array in each call, so you can use separate arrays for
JES>each thread. GEMlib has one from pl34 (iirc) and upwards.

not upwards, in pl36 the thread version was dropped. Chris thought it
was useless.

Petr
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