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Re: [PATCH] Re: sharing mutex between libc stub and libpthread
>> We could warnx() and return an error, but [...]
> A library function can't write to stdout or stderr either, nor even
> assume that fd 0, 1 and 2 have anything like their expected uses.
Nice theory, but that ship sailed long ago. ("warning: chunk is
already free" comes to mind immediately.)
I do agree it would be good if this were how libraries actually behaved.
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