From 20171c8dc0e3efec7437d8d00e32737d9909e4f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:15:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix comment about GNUTLS initialization/cleanup

---
 src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c b/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c
index 74a61e0783..7440c7a97a 100644
--- a/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c
+++ b/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c
@@ -1423,9 +1423,13 @@ void virNetTLSSessionFree(virNetTLSSessionPtr sess)
  * virNetTLS* because it initializes
  * underlying GnuTLS library. According to
  * it's documentation, it's safe to be called
- * many times, but is not thread safe. Each
- * call SHOULD be later followed by
- * virNetTLSContextDeinit.
+ * many times, but is not thread safe.
+ *
+ * There is no corresponding "Deinit" / "Cleanup"
+ * function because there is no safe way to call
+ * 'gnutls_global_deinit' from a multi-threaded
+ * library, where other libraries linked into the
+ * application may also be using gnutls.
  */
 void virNetTLSInit(void)
 {