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Re: fixing libpthread noload, another approach



On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:43:50AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:22:04AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 02:37:38AM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > > The problem is thatlibgobject also embed thread-related stuff, but are
> > > you going to tell GNOME people what features they should fold in their
> > > libaries because of 
> > 
> > No, but I flatly will not believe a PAM module using libgobject has been
> > properly audited. It probably would have better been rewritten in C++
> > using std::map and friends ;-)
> 
> They use list, slist, hash, and string functions. I agree it is always
> possible to wreck an implementation, but there is no reason why that one
> should be worse than something else.

Using that gigantic gonkulator of a library in particular just to get
implementations of basic datastructures from CS101 is a pretty good
sign to me that an implementation may be considerably worse than
"something else".

Thor


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