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Dummy pthread functions in libc considered harmful
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:30:40 +0200
- Subject: Dummy pthread functions in libc considered harmful
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BZ #18853 shows how the use of the dummy pthread functions in libc can
be harmful if dlopen brings in libpthread by dependency. IMHO it would
be better to remove the functions from libc, forcing the users to link
libpthread directly. Initially, the functions were only provided as
compat symbols (see the initial revision of nptl/forward.c), but soon
after that (in commit d7b2ea7) they were made available again because
"it caused too much trouble." This was very early in the NPTL
transition, and I don't think this is true any more.
Andreas.
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