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Re: fixing libpthread noload, another approach



David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> The problem is that there is also the class of programs that (directly
> or indirectly) dlopen() libpthread and then create threads.
> 
> Any such programs might have appeared to work previously, but then
> been subject to random failures due to missing locking inside libc.
> 
> Those are the class of programs that we need to worry about.

My proposal address them. They will reliabily abort when calling
pthread_create() or anything else that they shoud find in libpthread.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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