Re: Issues with libpthreads

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Fri Mar 04 2011 at 11:37:51 +0100, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:34:44AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:59:30AM +0100, Peter Bex wrote:
> > > Is mixing and matching pthreads-using libraries with non-pthreads-using
> > > libraries really impossible?
> > 
> > [Ignoring minor details for brevity]
> > A process is either threaded or not threaded. You can not use libc for five
> > mintues in non-threaded mode, then load a shared library wich requires
> > threading and start creating threads.
> > 
> > This is not a bug.
> > 
> > As Antti said, there are several solutions for your problem. The most
> > simple way is to link the application (in your case the interpreter)
> > against libpthread.
> 
> Thanks for both your replies.  This is quite a pitfall, though!

I think Nick recently fixed -current so that dlopening libpthread
explicitly fails instead of causing weird problems.

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