RE: [RFC] pre-c89 in libltdl

[Howard Chu]

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> Some systems will supply an alternate C library, or other libraries if
> the application is built to be thread safe.

> There is no free lunch when it comes to thread safety.

Sounds to me like libltdl should completely ignore the issue. Applications
should assume that the native dlopen is NOT thread-safe, and take care of
locking themselves. All application calls into libltdl should thus be
protected by the caller.

  -- Howard Chu
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