[libc-alpha] Race condition between nss/dlopen/thread

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 13:19, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

> One solution is prevention. Simply do not acquire both locks, only one
> at a time. For instance, NSS could arrange to have its lock released
> while it calls out to dlopen.

Prevention: yes.  But why that complicated?  Static initializers are
evil.  Every DSO which depends on them is inherently in danger of not
working reliably.  I see no need to change anything.  Fix the code.  Use
delayed initialization or explicit initialization functions.

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