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Re: Shared library loading, please help me

From: "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <D dot Mierzejewski at icm dot edu dot pl>
To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Cc: matteo dot pampolini at seleniacomms dot com
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:07:15 +0100
Subject: Re: Shared library loading, please help me
References: <OFFC365CE5.83CB9119-ONC1256FC0.0056A660-C1256FC0.00577BFD@SeleniaComms.com> <m34qfjv68m.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:02:49AM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
[...]
> If you want to do hardware initialization in a shared library, and you
> want to do it only once, then you need to use some sort of IPC
> mechanism, such as semaphores, a server process, a file system lock,
> etc.  This is a general Unix programming question, not a binutils
> question.

Not to mention that doing hardware init automatically in a library is
a bad idea to start with.

Regards,

-- 
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl>
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
Warsaw University  |  http://www.icm.edu.pl  |  tel. +48 (22) 5540810

References:
- Shared library loading, please help me
  - From: matteo . pampolini
- Re: Shared library loading, please help me
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor

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