ssh-keygen freezes if you force use of engine

Frederick Gotham cauldwell.thomas at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 07:42:33 UTC 2019


Jordan Brown wrote:

> Note that __pthread_once_slow is in the stack twice, called from
> OPENSSL_init_crypto and CRYPTO_THREAD_run_once.
> 
> "once" functions ensure that they call their function argument exactly
> once, even if they are called multiple times in parallel while their
> function is running.  They do that by locking a mutex around the
> execution of the function.  The second call attempted to lock the mutex
> to wait for the first call to complete, and deadlocked.



I still don't know what to do about this.

For them moment I'm continuing with my idea in the thread "Latest idea to 
force usage of custom engine".



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