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Re: suenv



Julian Yon <julian%yon.org.uk@localhost> wrote:

> From Thor's response I suspect that the LD_PRELOAD restriction that I
> asked you about (that I know is in Linux but wasn't sure about NetBSD)
> probably is in place. And it's a hack because the real problem in your
> specific case lies in the design of the module, not in the threads
> restriction.

I am not sure we can find any standard that backs the pthread
prohibition for PAM modules. It was bad before because libpthread was
dlopen() and operated in a process that did not had threading
initialized, but as I understand, the LD_PRELOAD way address that
problem.


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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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