Cancellation and dlmopen?

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Nov 17 15:36:00 GMT 2015


On 11/17/2015 04:33 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> Or document that if the new namespace does not create any threads of it's
> own that the namespace is *not* thread safe. So calls from non-namespace
> created threads into the namespace are not safe.

Other libraries may encounter this problem, too, because they have
separate sets of locks and no longer achieve mutual exclusion.  For
example, in-process databases such as SQLite which implement new-style,
file-private locks in an emulation layer will break.

Florian




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