Re: dlopen() and libpthread

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> 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.

It would be nice if dlopen() could still succeed while not loading
libraries taggged NOOPEN. If it is not really needed, that works. If the
library was required, we get a hard failure when a missing symbol is
called.

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