enabling caching for dl_iterate_phdr()
Roland McGrath
roland@redhat.com
Tue Dec 23 22:24:00 GMT 2003
> Would it be possible to add two atomic counters, dl_load_additions and
> dl_load_removals, which would get incremented whenever something is a
> phdr is added to/removed from the list that is traversed by
> dl_iterate_phdr()?
What interface do you propose for exposing such counters?
We won't be adding any published interfaces using variables.
> Any opinions? I guess the alternative that was mentioned in the past
> was to use callbacks, but that seems very dangerous in regards to
> deadlock etc.
If your callback functions do nothing but increment atomic counters of your
own, then there is no problem.
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