p11_kit_initialize_registered in a constructor

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 16:29 +0100, Stef Walter wrote:
> On 30.11.2013 16:27, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  Would using p11_kit_initialize_registered() in a library constructor
> > work? I can think of issues with error reporting, but I cannot think of
> > anything that would inherently prevent that, or am I wrong?
> 
> If loading other libraries (including those that might in turn link in a
> library constructor) from a library constructor is okay, then I would
> imagine it's fine.
> 
> On the other hand, the behavior of C_Initialize for various PKCS#11
> modules is far from well-behaved. Some of them take many tens of seconds
> to complete.
> 
> I would suggest using the new p11-kit API, and loading the modules, but
> not initializing them until use.

I guess you mean splitting p11_kit_modules_load_and_initialize() to
p11_kit_modules_load() and p11_kit_modules_initialize() (btw. these
functions are not in the API index of the web-site manual). 

That requires quite some changes, and safe guarding with locks to work,
but looks certainly doable.

regards,
Nikos