This is the mail archive of the libc-alpha@sourceware.org mailing list for the glibc project.

Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [PATCH] Reinitialize dl_load_write_lock on fork (bug 19282)

On 10/09/2017 09:58 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

So this bug is actually INVALID but for a different reason: in a
multi-threaded program the forked child may only call async-signal-safe
functions.
I think we really need to support dlopen-after-fork in multi-threaded processes as an extension, in the same we way need to support malloc-after-fork. I expect that there are quite a few programs which do this. 

Florian
Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]