Should glibc be fully reentrant? What do we allow interposed symbols to do?
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Fri Oct 24 15:25:00 GMT 2014
On 10/24/2014 05:31 AM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
>> Allow interposed functions to call back into the runtime, and fix any
>> places where this breaks.
>
> As worded, I do not agree. IMHO, this should be opt-in. It may very
> well be that we'd want an opt-in for large sets of functionality, but
> I'd be concerned about promising support for this *in general*.
I concede. You make a good point.
How do we opt-in? Add a new safety annotation? Re-entrant?
Cheers,
Carlos.
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