On Mon, 19 May 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > |-------------------+-------------+---------------+----------------------| > > | | | | Update the run-time | > > | rtld-elf | -- | Alexander | link editor (rtld) | > > | thread-safety | | Kabaev | thread-safe with | > > | | | | libpthread. | > > |-------------------+-------------+---------------+----------------------| > > According to chapter 12 of the "Go Solo 2" book, this is a bogus thing > to do. Callers are required to take a critical section over the calls > to the dl* functions because the dlerror() function uses a static buffer > that can be overwritten in a multi-threaded environment. Sadly, that insight doesn't seem to have influenced the development practices of a number of major application vendors :-(. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert_at_fledge.watson.org Network Associates LaboratoriesReceived on Mon May 19 2003 - 09:38:11 UTC
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