Re: [RFC] pre-c89 in libltdl

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Could someone explain exactly why libltdl is thread unsafe, e.g. what
> it need these locking functions for, in the first place?

Libltdl maintains its own internal data structures in order to
maintain the list of modules which are loaded and to cache some
information it has learned.  In addition to this, the systems's
dlopen() (or equivalent) is possibly not thread safe.

Bob
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