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Re: fixing libpthread noload, another approach



On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:42:58PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 03:24:44PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > case 1: dlopen of DSO that is linked with -lpthread through third pary 
> > libraries, but never use threads. That worked reliabily before NetBSD 6.0 
> > and now this is borken. This is a regression.
> 
> No, even this case didn't work reliably before. Depending on the way
> e.g. mutex access is mixed, it could fail visibily before.

Well, then let us make it working reliabily now, instead of failing
reliabily. Software that works is more useful than software that does not.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost


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