Re: obsoleting shlibs - what's the plan

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 02:38:31AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> It's also not clear that loading two instances of the "same" library
> is necessary wrong in all cases. For example, a library that provided
> the functions in <string.h> could be cloned fairly safely, whereas two
> different mallocs is clearly a losing proposition no matter what you
> do.

A different malloc is actually safe as well as long as you implement the
whole family. At least libpthread and libc should check explicitly that
they are loaded only once. In the caes of libpthread, it should also
check and fail miserable when it is loaded via dlopen.

Joerg