Re: [RFC] pre-c89 in libltdl

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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On 15 Apr 2004, at 23:05, Howard Chu wrote:
> > Some systems will supply an alternate C library, or other libraries if
> > the application is built to be thread safe.
>
> > There is no free lunch when it comes to thread safety.
>
> Sounds to me like libltdl should completely ignore the issue. 
> Applications
> should assume that the native dlopen is NOT thread-safe, and take care 
> of
> locking themselves. All application calls into libltdl should thus be
> protected by the caller.

Agreed.

As I am on a libltdl code simplification fix, a patch to drop MUTEX 
fluff
entirely will be on its way shortly...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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