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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>ne_sock_init</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../manual.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="neon HTTP/WebDAV client library"><link rel="up" href="ref.html" title="neon API reference"><link rel="prev" href="refshave.html" title="ne_shave"><link rel="next" href="refcert.html" title="ne_ssl_cert_identity"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ne_sock_init</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="refshave.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">neon API reference</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="refcert.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="refsockinit"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ne_sock_init, ne_sock_exit — perform library initialization</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><pre class="funcsynopsisinfo">#include <ne_socket.h></pre><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">ne_sock_init</b>(</code></td><td><code>void)</code>;</td><td> </td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">ne_sock_exit</b>(</code></td><td><code>void)</code>;</td><td> </td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm140368849694320"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>In some platforms and configurations, neon may be using some socket or SSL libraries which require global initialization before use. To perform this initialization, the <code class="function">ne_sock_init</code> function must be called before any other library functions are used.</p><p>Once all use of neon is complete, <code class="function">ne_sock_exit</code> can be called to perform de-initialization of socket or SSL libraries, if necessary. Uses of <code class="function">ne_sock_init</code> and <code class="function">ne_sock_exit</code> are "reference counted"; if N calls to <code class="function">ne_sock_init</code> are made, only the Nth call to <code class="function">ne_sock_exit</code> will have effect.</p><p><code class="function">ne_sock_init</code> will set the disposition of the <code class="literal">SIGPIPE</code> signal to <span class="emphasis"><em>ignored</em></span>. No change is made to the <code class="literal">SIGPIPE</code> disposition by <code class="function">ne_sock_exit</code>.</p><p>Both the SSL libraries supported by neon — OpenSSL and GnuTLS — require callbacks to be registered to allow thread-safe use of SSL. These callbacks are stored as global variables and so their state persists for as long as the library in question is loaded into the process. If multiple users of the SSL library exist within the process, this can be problematic, particularly if one is dynamically loaded (and may subsequently be unloaded).</p><p>If neon is configured using the <code class="literal">--enable-threadsafe-ssl</code> flag, thread-safe SSL support will be enabled automatically, as covered in the following section. Otherwise, it is not safe to use neon with SSL in a multi-threaded process. The <a class="xref" href="reffeat.html#ne_has_support">ne_has_support</a> function can be used to determine whether neon is built to enable thread-safety support in the SSL library.</p><div class="refsect2"><a name="idm140368849682864"></a><h3>Thread-safe SSL with OpenSSL</h3><p>neon follows two simple rules when dealing with the OpenSSL locking callbacks: </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><code class="function">ne_sock_init</code> will set thread-safety locking callbacks if and only if no locking callbacks are already registered.</li><li class="listitem"><code class="function">ne_sock_exit</code> will unset the thread-safety locking callbacks if and only if the locking callbacks registered are those registered by <code class="function">ne_sock_init</code>.</li></ul></div><p> Applications and libraries should be able to co-operate to ensure that SSL use is always thread-safe if similar rules are always followed.</p></div><div class="refsect2"><a name="idm140368849678112"></a><h3>Thread-safe SSL with GnuTLS</h3><p>The cryptography library used by GnuTLS, libgcrypt, only supports an initialization operation to register thread-safety callbacks. <code class="function">ne_sock_init</code> will register the thread-safe locking callbacks on first use; <code class="function">ne_sock_exit</code> cannot unregister them. If multiple users of GnuTLS are present within the process, it is unsafe to dynamically unload neon from the process if neon is configured with thread-safe SSL support enabled (since the callbacks would be left pointing at unmapped memory once neon is unloaded).</p></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm140368849674976"></a><h2>Return value</h2><p><code class="function">ne_sock_init</code> returns zero on success, or non-zero on error. If an error occurs, no further use of the neon library should be attempted.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm140368849673072"></a><h2>See also</h2><p><a class="xref" href="refneon.html" title="neon"><span class="refentrytitle">neon</span></a>, <a class="xref" href="reffeat.html" title="ne_has_support"><span class="refentrytitle">ne_has_support</span></a></p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="refshave.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ref.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="refcert.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ne_shave </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ne_ssl_cert_identity</td></tr></table></div></body></html>