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Re: dlopen() and libpthread

To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: dlopen() and libpthread
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:33:08 -0400

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 08:05:11AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> 
> And my question is: why should libpthread be forbidden for dlopen(3)?

Because the dynamic loader cannot travel backwards in time and cause libc
to have started up, in the past, with threading enabled.

Thor

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