libCurl SSL error after fork()

Question

I\'m developing a FUSE driver and when I run it as a daemon (without the -f or -d flags) all https request made through libcurl fail. I was able to reproduce the error by ma

Answer 1

To make this work, you need to call curl_global_cleanup before fork and curl_global_init again after fork. Someone in the libcurl mailing list mentioned that this is a common problem when calling fork after initializing libraries that need to be initialized.