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Re: dlopen() and libpthread



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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